@feditips Seeing as the issue has been open for 6 years, I can't but feel discouraged about the prospects of it ever being resolved. Plus if it's a fedi issue and not just a Mastodon issue, then addressing it here won't solve the root of the problem which is probably API level (ActivityPub) and should just allow backfilling, and the depth of which each profile is backfilled, to be controlled by the instance owner.