After endless attempts, it turns out that the whole problem was in the plugin itself, and the plugin itself was written for me by ChatGPT, and I can now say with certainty after endless attempts - he can't write plugins at all!
In August, we made a lot of progress on backend code updates... and, we also had some holidays ️ Here's the more in-depth version of what the team worked on, in our regular engineering update. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/trunk-tidbits-august-2025/
