@mcc there's a "quiet public" visibility option which should hide the post from unauthorised clients, maybe that should be the default, with a warning on the public visibility for posting

Edit: Read through the replies, and found out about the #nobot tag, I just added that to my thing to filter out too. I wasn't aware of that.

@mcc hey, so full disclosure, I do something similar, completely locally, without sending anything out to any provider, all inference is happening on my machine, and the results are saved to an HTML on my machine only. It loads the top 120 public posts on Mastodon, and filters them to 3 categories as a morning and evening recap of notable events. Just want to let you know that even without any credentials it's possible to see top public posts on Mastodon, which is how I first saw this post too.