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@Shrigglepuss Eugen's marketing brain i suppose, which is so clearly put above community safety

@Shrigglepuss (scrapers could always parse the html views of course, but that's an extra hurdle over just getting machine-readable data)

@Shrigglepuss fun fact the landing page shit also means the REST api has to be publicly exposed, so even with authorized_fetch enabled, scrapers etc can now just get the json representation of posts

it's clearly once again mastodon prioritizing marketability and "onboarding" over the safety of existing users

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ugh not a fan of the non-configurable mastodon 4.0 unauthenticated web view, and the way it forces AUTHORIZED_FETCH enabled instances to expose their REST api to the world

@Spotify@brands.town my wife divorced and sued me after i lost our life savings investing in bitcoin, what do I do

datalist sorta comes closest, but the UI really isn't great

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ugh why are there no nice combined dropdown + text input elements in standard HTML

i will not stop posting :sadgrunt: until he has federated to every last damn corner of the internet

@maloki this mental health was sponsored by Audi, drive faster

@mia@lgbtqia.space i'm suffering just as badly here!

the adhd designer urge to constantly redesign everything you make because you already got bored of it

@schratze like with all meta, i've only seen people asking about it

turns out I just needed to challenge myself with the old Rollei 135mm f/2.8, shooting with a prime lens and no autofocus is so different from the 28-300mm Sigma that just kinda looks 'okay'

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