I've tried reading the JSON too but typically remember to append .rss to a user profile URL more quickly than I remember or type /api/v1/.../statuses?exclude_replies=true etc (or .json to the profile url if that instance supports that).
Both are vastly inferior and tedious ways requiring me to type a new URL. It is not controverserial to say the primary purpose of a web browser is to display HTML. Most URLs resolve to HTML pages. It's been this way for 30 years. Only in the last 10 has this radical new application view of the web been creating walled gardens on top of the old document model web. And that's mostly for commercial/profit-motive reasons so it's sad to see non-profit motive software cargo culting SPA only dev.
It also means post v3 mastadon is inherently incompatible with indieweb standards like webmention since there is no page to check for URLs.
Both are vastly inferior and tedious ways requiring me to type a new URL. It is not controverserial to say the primary purpose of a web browser is to display HTML. Most URLs resolve to HTML pages. It's been this way for 30 years. Only in the last 10 has this radical new application view of the web been creating walled gardens on top of the old document model web. And that's mostly for commercial/profit-motive reasons so it's sad to see non-profit motive software cargo culting SPA only dev.
It also means post v3 mastadon is inherently incompatible with indieweb standards like webmention since there is no page to check for URLs.