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So the hover cards landed on mastodon.social… I didn't even make it a full day before creating a userstyle to forcibly disable them >_>

@mcc Any plans to submit a patch to make hover cards and ALT tags toggleable in the options, in mainline Mastodon?
mcc

@csolisr I've asked in the discord if we can get that option.

"Option" patches are sometimes not smiled on by software projects because they imply a long term maintenance obligation, and also, I have yet to get a local test copy of Mastodon working, so this would create a difficulty with testing any patch.

@mcc Fair enough that! Basically you'd need your own self-hosted server to dogfood your own test patches, as to not break things for anyone else

@csolisr there is a docker image but i had a problem