Websites that do not correctly fail the instance request trigger a redirect to /public/local
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David Joseph Guzsik
When visiting a website that responds with a 200 status to the /api/v1/instance request it causes the page to be redirected to the /public/local path regardless of whether it is a Mastodon instance or not.
Example websites:
Jared Zimmerman
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Jared Zimmerman
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Jared Zimmerman
Thanks for reporting this, there was a previous bug that was resolved, but this looks related.