ugh… I’d noticed the change in behavior for following links to posts and profiles *within* the web app on #Mastdodon 4, but I hadn’t looked to see that the *actual* post and profile web pages do not actually contain the post or profile content, just JavaScript and the metadata to load it.
In essense, Mastodon profiles and posts are no longer actually interoperable parts of the web. Or as #indieweb puts it: #jsdr
IMO the web has plenty of room for both applications and documents. Applications can be applications, and they can certainly include documents. I’m not objecting to the overall web application UI.
But a document should be reachable *as a document*.
Aha, there is a Github issue: