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Comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 | Hacker News Reader

Mastodon without Javascript enabled:

https://mastodon.social/@HalvarFlake/110883667162838296/embe...

Text-only:

     curl -A "" -40s https://mastodon.social/@HalvarFlake/110883667162838296/ \
     |sed -n '/./{/property=\"og:url\"/,/name=.description.>/{
     s/. name=.description.>//;
     s/<meta content=.//;
     s/\".*//;
     s/&quot;/\"/g;
     p;};}'

... also without comments. I appreciate the idea, but without the discussion its basically Twitter since they also hide replies with anonymous requests.

In principle, if you want the post and comments without JS you can just pull the underlying ActivityPub document (application/activity+json). I made a command-line browser based on this idea: https://github.com/bentonedmondson/servitor

That's unfortunate. Sites used to not need JS to show static content.

Yep, the web used to be for distributing documents, but now it is becoming/has become more of an application VM [1]. But ActivityPub is a nice format for the document distribution use-case; it is a superset (in terms of features) of semantic HTML [2] and RSS and has higher level semantics (comment sections, profiles, etc) and no server-provided scripting nor styling.

[1]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1peUSMsvFGvqD5yKh3GprskLC... [2]: any plain HTML page can be represented as an ActivityPub Article

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