>mastodon't devs upset over as:Public
>they totally hose the streaming API with basically no warning and with no input from the community
>the overwhelming consensus on github discussions is that this breaks too many third-party applications
>countless small instance owners decry the change and how it was pushed on them with no discussion in a point release
>devs trot out the old, tired "but public posts shouldn't be public because bad people exist" argument
>countless people point out that there's other (btw more resource intensive for the server owner) ways to get public content because it's public and that's what public means
>devs tell everyone to suck it up buttercup
>as:Public gains the ability to use bearer tokens
>the discussion also brings up a helpful service that provides a massive firehose that as:Public will so totally be using
@r000t please not so much text, just tell me what to think about it!
@IceCubeSoup mastodon developers neutered a feature that's vital for a social network to be used for social networking, for absolutely no benefit. They also failed to update documentation and introduced a few new bugs. r000tles takes yet another W.
@r000t I was being a sarcastic shitposter, but that was actually helpful, thanks!