One of the challenging aspects of building a federated mobile app is parsing post captions and being able to render them properly

See, when you make a post with mentions or hashtags, mastodon converts it to HTML and mobile apps have to deconstruct that HTML to be able to render mentions, hashtags and links properly

We could just render the HTML, but when you would tap on a hashtag or mention, it would open the browser instead of in-app

Indices and entity maps ftw, thanks backend!

#pixeldev