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
While working on the Pixelfed mobile app refactor, I found the issue causing “broken” or missing comments, it’s not a federation bug, but rather a hardcoded limit of 20 comments (on the MastoAPI)
Working on the fix, and a new pixelfed API for better comment pagination.