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so the mastodon commit which allows blank media toots also removes the media link insertion
i want to keep the insertion but also allow blank toots
ofc i can't have this unless i get elbow deep into the fucking mess that is mastodn ruby and javascript because both things are the same commit
SIGH
i want to keep the media links because more than once i've had a post boosted onto my timeline where the poster removed the media link and the media didn't federate properly and the toot referenced an image that wasn't there unless you expanded the toot and there was a link to an embed with that random characters filename mastodon puts on images and it links to the image on the remote instance but the toot on my instance never had media in it
SO IN CONCLUSION i don't want to remove media links
ok i found it i just need to reintroduce these three lines in this file i think and hope i'm not fucking breaking everything because who knows am i right https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/commit/45fbdcc#diff-3fb459a28b27d6839fb62d18bceecf8a
when i get angry at things i write rambly posts with no punctuation in them because that's literally what i do irl, i just start rambling without pause because i need to vent in frustration