I think this is an absolutely absurd take. A post is the same post no matter who views it - it belongs on the instance where it was posted. Sure it might show up in your timeline or comments somewhere else but for the post itself there should only be one canonical link. If mastodon can't manage to show a simple text post with a small image to anonymous visitors without falling over then it's mastodon that needs to change and not how people interact with it. Most people don't even have a fediverse account ffs.
Where is the canonical location to access an email, or read an XMPP message? It's not just that it 'might show up' in my timeline, seeing it on my home server is where I want it to be - that's where I can take actions on it like replying, starring, or boosting. The post belongs in my client because that representation is the one that's relevant to me. I agree that the mastodon software could do better to optimize for public anonymous read, but it's not the most important functionality for the server to do.
> Most people don't even have a fediverse account ffs.
This is why you won't see a Bluesky post linked on HN, no one can open it. Imagine if you could sign up on your choice of thousands of servers and get the same access to the content rather than a central site, that's fediverse, it's not that complex.
