Once upon a time long ago, I was sitting alone in the UCLA ARPANET site #1
Looks like we may see more and more HN submissions that are URLs pointing to Mastodon "toots".  Better than URLs pointing to Twitter pages, but still baffling given that the content is less than 500 characters, and even less in the case of Twitter.<p>The text of a toot is in the page.  There is no Javascript-triggered HTTP request to retrieve it.  One does not need to enable Javascript to fetch and read toots in a web browser.  But, like Twitter, some web developer(s) thought it would be a good idea to try to prevent www browser users from seeing any content unless they enable Javascript.<p>One workaround is to simply add /embed to the URL.<p><a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/109588605178700335/embed" rel="nofollow">https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/109588605178700...</a><p>Personally I have added a rule to the localhost-bound forward proxy that adds this automatically so Mastodon toots are readable in the text-only browser.