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I am very glad, also impressed by that detailed knowledge, are you working on/with lemmy? I'd whip out an award, but here are only poor men awards π π
Nah, I was just playing around with the API and spent the better part of a day trying to figure out why authentication wasn't working for me (I'd been using a 64 character password π€¦)