What I'm learning here is that the whole objection to "scrapers" on the fediverse is a completely moving goalpost of "whatever I don't want". When someone made a thread unroller, people made the arguments that what rendered it a scraper is that it has a database, as opposed to just being a live client. Now someone has a way of showing an account's best posts that doesn't store any data, and solely connects to the public API like any other client, and that's also now a "scraper".
@ocdtrekkie > a completely moving goalpost of "whatever I don't want"
Yes. This is why it's so hard to please the public regarding privacy and security: when you try to do what people say they want you get noise, and when you try to do what you think is best you get accused of being authoritarian / patriarchical / whatever the term-du-jour is for "acting like you know more than the average person, when the aggregate of average people keep sending you mixed signals on what they want."
... to my money, I prefer the second approach because it at least demonstrates some intent or underlying philosophy.
