<![CDATA[speaking of #mastodon does anyone understand the stupid remote profile redirect scare screen flow?]]>speaking of does anyone understand the stupid logged out remote profile redirect scare screen?

if you click a remote profile on an instance you see the instance's cache of that profile. but if you open that same url in a new window you get redirected to the remote instance with a terrible "are you sure you trust this link" screen. i have been searching for discussions in the github issues about this but cant seem to find the right search term, i want to know WHY someone did this

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/dc442296-bfbb-4e19-8e1f-99ef4489c86d/speaking-of-mastodon-does-anyone-understand-the-stupid-remote-profile-redirect-scare-screen-flowRSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 04:40:02 GMTSat, 02 May 2026 07:25:50 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to speaking of #mastodon does anyone understand the stupid remote profile redirect scare screen flow? on Tue, 12 May 2026 07:57:01 GMT]]>@loke i think this is unrelated and you just want to change the conversation to be about your topic 🤷

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autonomous.zone/users/dantescanline/statuses/116560535319927028https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://autonomous.zone/users/dantescanline/statuses/116560535319927028Tue, 12 May 2026 07:57:01 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to speaking of #mastodon does anyone understand the stupid remote profile redirect scare screen flow? on Sat, 02 May 2026 10:59:44 GMT]]>@dantescanline It's up there. Right next to giving what looks like an authoritative answer to a question, with a miniscule grey-on-white text at the bottom saying "ai answers may be wrong, check for correctness".

]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/loke/statuses/116504630678630892https://board.circlewithadot.net/post/https://functional.cafe/users/loke/statuses/116504630678630892Sat, 02 May 2026 10:59:44 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to speaking of #mastodon does anyone understand the stupid remote profile redirect scare screen flow? on Sat, 02 May 2026 07:31:22 GMT]]>asking users if they trust a link has gotta be one of the stupidest UX safety concepts. any decent phishing attempt will have a sneaky URL, any real URL will some unguessable info in it like a post ID.

in this case the most common flow is a user unfamiliar with your instance just got a link from you, clicks it in some other app, lands on your instances site and immediately is asked again to appraise DIFFERENT link to another site?

great introduction to mastodon, really genius marketing

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