{"p":"","h":{"iv":"ROXSYW+cfvEbFHu5","at":"ocxplSQjdRC3tXEtB/9/wg=="}}

@atomicpoet A client has no way of knowing what software generated a post on the other end. All posts are uniform in the Mastodon API, federation is handled by the server entirely. There is no way for a client to not display posts from non-Mastodon servers.

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Chris Trottier

@Gargron You say there's no way, and you probably can't imagine it happening -- but I'm saying it's happened with a specific client.

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@Gargron @atomicpoet Perfectly possible if it makes specific assumptions about the post format that are fulfilled by Masto-FE-made or maybe Masto-BE-processed posts, but not necessarily by posts from elsewhere, even when distributed to Masto.

Some assumption analogous to but different from the assumption by some clients that the ID in the Masto API will be a stringified integer.
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