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@dec_hl I think something like an #App #curator site that allows #filtering / has said filters set by default as a "#SafeSearch" would be propably best...

Not to mention it'll get #downranked and #shadowbanned from both platfirms pretty quickly.

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  • I think having a proper #API is a way to facilitate that, cuz worst-case one just slaps together some #aliases in #bash, #fish, #zsh or whatever #shell and just uses #curl to query stuff manually as this solves the whole #WebApp - issue.

And I do prefer #FLOSS as it works fine for an ever increasing audience!

  • Even if we choose to point at bad #UX / #UI combos like #GnuPG, we've to also acknowledge better existing alternatives like #enc that just work!

Personally, I think that everything people are expected to use if not forced to use should be #OpenSource as licensed in a #OSI accredited license and be released with #SourceCode and #documentation to make #reproduceableBuilds and thus facilitate #audits by truly independent parties...

  • And if that's not possible any requirement to using said things should be outlawed no matter the context!

A unsarcastically good example is #S3, even tho I hate #amazon, they wanted #developers to integrate their #ObjectStorage which necessitated an #open source'd API to the point that it's #backend is inherently reproduceable, and now every halfassing #Webhoster offers S3 #storage, sometimes with bit & second-precise billing.

GitHubGitHub - life4/enc: 🔑🔒 A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more.🔑🔒 A modern and friendly CLI alternative to GnuPG: generate and download keys, encrypt, decrypt, and sign text and files, and more. - life4/enc
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@mook @MastodonEngineering EXACTLY THIS is why I think a "#Webhoster-only" functional #ActivityPub server is kinda important.

And for what Mastodon does, it feels quite overengineered and overcomplex, but then again I'm used to #MkDocs and other, "#offline-#CMS|es" that do just work and are kinda essential for stuff on @torproject / #Tor because noone there uses #JavaScript and enabling #JS is discouraged by #TorBrowser for all the right reasons...

I should take a closer look at #streams once I have time for that...