Thomas Fitzsimmons: Mastodon and HTML

Request to Mastodon instance operators: Provide a read-only anonymous HTML-only mode.

I’ve been following some Mastodon instances for several months. In Emacs, I type:

ESCAPE x eww ENTER https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral ENTER

and, without any authentication requirement, I’m greeted with a read-only HTML view of the instance, for example:

Example toot in Mastodon v3.5.3 HTML-only mode.

This week I tried another instance

ESCAPE x eww ENTER https://mastodon.social/@markmccaughrean ENTER

and I am blocked by:

Mastodon v4.0.0rc1 "please enable JavaScript" message. — Mastodon v4.0.0rc1 “please enable JavaScript” message.

Is this a new default? I was surprised that read-only anonymous HTML-only mode (ala Twitter classic and Nitter) is not supported by all Mastodon instances.