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There's no way to read a mastadon post without executing javascript. There's not even a proxy like "nitter" is for twitter to view posts as HTML. The "best" way
by superkuh 4y ago
There's no way to read a mastadon post without executing javascript. There's not even a proxy like "nitter" is for twitter to view posts as HTML. The "best" way is to read the entire feed of a user by requesting it as json and parsing that with your eyes. It's a terrible user experience. I mostly just ignore mastadon servers post version 3.
- foul 4y agoWhy don't you host an instance of snac and read posts from there? https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2 https://codeberg.org/grunfink/snac2
- superkuh 4y agoWhile that c code is at least unchanging on my disk and reviewable, it's still a lot to ask that I compile and run special software to read a particular type of webpage. Mastadon's design is terrible in the sense that it perfectly captures how bad twitter was/is without any of the community mitigations of the disaster in accesibility. I don't want to run an activitypub server. I just want text and image websites to actually have text and images. This is not too much to ask for a community protocol. Before mastadon v3 it was an option (and the default option).