I am forever grateful to him for building & popularizing Mastodon, but I don't think @Gargron should be working on features at all right now.
Instead, he and the Mastodon non-profit (and a whole bunch of others) should be figuring out governance for collectively making decisions about Mastodon. Features in the Fediverse shouldn't be up to one guy, or even one company.
That's the whole point of the Fediverse. We do this together, or not at all.
@blaine @Gargron this was already solved.
ActivityPub is a W3C standard and WebFinger is an IETF standard.
I think betting it all on Mastodon is a bigger issue IMO, it's like saying that Chromium should have better governance instead of promoting browser engine diversity.
My only concern right now is the lack of a standardized REST API for clients (preferably something that uses OpenID Connect instead of just OAuth).
My only concern right now is the lack of a standardized REST API for clients (preferably something that uses OpenID Connect instead of just OAuth).
There is a standard client API; it’s part of ActivityPub. Federation is part of the server to server API (S2S), but half of the spec is devoted to the client to server API (C2S). But mastodon has refused to implement it since its inception and therefore every other implementation has had to use the mastoAPI for client support.
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