Mastodon: Enable use of mastodon without javascript

[WhilelM]

As a matter of security, I think mastodon should be usable without javascript. May it be ?

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• [X] I searched or browsed the repo’s other issues to ensure this is not a duplicate.
  I saw #3634 which is a different matter

[zcdunn]

Pretty sure this came up before and Gargron's stance is that is not a priority of the official web UI and anyone is free to build a third party UI to meet their specific requirements

[sorin-davidoi]

While technically possible, it requires extensive refactoring and introducing another layer of system-level dependencies (Node.js). Not sure what you would gain in terms of security since you already trust the server (and by default Mastodon doesn't include any third-party scripts).

[WhilelM]

@zcdunn a link to these should be usefull then

@sorin-davidoi Trusting a server with my toots and contacts is one thing, trusting it for executed code in my browser on my personal computer is another thing.

[charlag]

@WhilelM web UI uses same APIs that any other app would. As @sorin-davidoi said, nothing stops you from using another front-end.

[Gargron]

You could use a native or CLI app to use Mastodon. I will not build an extra interface. The beauty of the JavaScript-based web UI is that it reuses the same API as all other apps, so things don't need to implemented multiple times in Ruby.