Lady @Lady@cat.family

@aescling mastodon happens to use usernames in its URIs (okay look technically they’re called IRIs) but even if it didn't it wouldn't matter because it does webfinger by acct so that is its single source of truth

@aescling yes, the numerical id is not a global identifier (the global identifier is this thing called a Uniform Resource Identifier but mastodon doesn't keep track of accounts that way)

@aescling i have had absolutely nothing to do here thus far

i mean i plan on auditing the instances we are federating with in a day or two but at the moment our posts are mostly only reaching the eyes of the followers of the 4 people on this server, all of whom are cool

@aescling oh yeah definitely

thing is i’m actually thinking of applying to a place which primarily does Ruby/Rails so refreshing myself on it is pertinent to my professional goals

@aescling in glitchsoc it’s in the app settings under General > Notifications options

@aescling if mastodon doesn’t want me mucking around with it then it should simply be a good software

@aescling well it bothers me lol

@aescling easy enough to just make the request yourself

https://cat.family/.well-known/webfinger?resource=acct:aescling@cat.family

@aescling ah, baby is growing up 🥺

@aescling yes

@aescling (the icon is added to the SHOW MORE button)

@aescling no, glitchsoc adds icons to indicate whether a toot with a CW has attached media, since it places the media inside the CW