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So I try to follow someone on another pump.io server, and it tells me I'm about to authorize the other server to do absolutely anything it wants to my account here. Thanks, but no thanks.
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Yes. Receiving messages from other people means their servers need to write to your inbox, and currently the server has no more fine-grained access model than all or nothing.
When you're authorizing other servers to do stuff with your account, it's because you're doing remote login.
Using a different client might or might not require such an authorization.
I can tell you that using Dianara you need to authorize the program, but then you have zero need to give permissions to any server.
It's probably the same for Pumpa, Impeller or Puma.
No. This is how pump works currently. It's at the core of the delivery mechanism. If you follow you need to give write access. The client is irrelevant.