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For technical reasons, a profile may sometimes look blank if no one on your server follows it.
To see the most complete and updated version of a profile, you can check its "original page". This is the original version of the profile hosted on its server.
You can usually view a profile's original page by clicking ⋯ on the profile, then "Open in browser" or "Open original page".
Original pages also have lots of other uses, more info in the guide at:
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️ https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon
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Fedi.Tips@FediTips@social.growyourown.services
p.s. This problem of unfollowed accounts sometimes looking blank is being worked on. People into the techy side of software development can see the relevant pull requests here:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34595
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/34597
If these are merged into Mastodon's software, profiles would look the same for everyone.
A similar feature has already been merged for discussion threads, the next version of Mastodon (v.4.5.0) will automatically fetch replies so threads look the same for everyone.
