unroll.ninja

Turns out that there isn't a good way to "unroll" Mastodon threads.
The only option I could find is based on a bot-account on a normal Mastodon instance.

But if the post you want to unroll hasn't made it to that instance yet, or the instance isn't federated with the source instance you're out of luck.

So far It only works with public threads on Mastodon.

It's limited to Mastodon because I'm using the Mastodon API instead of ActivityPub to get the data.

Based on my understanding, ActivityPub has no way to get a specific post from a server.

But since the target demographic for this thing is me, I guess that's fine for now.

The long-term goal for me is to make some sort of link collection where I link to the stuff I made and documented on here.

Currently, discoverability isn't great.

That's what I get for using Mastodon as a blog.

Maybe I should create a bot that works like the one on the website formerly known as twitter.