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Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic (hachyderm.io)
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Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic

See the conversions here:
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/4628
and
https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/federating-the-content-of-posts-note-articles-and-character-limits/4087

AFAICT, mastodon's decisions, which are arguably problematic (on which see: https://lemmy.ml/post/14973403) are literally trickling down to other platforms and infecting how they federate with each other as they dance around mastodon's quirks in different ways.

It seems like masto is ruining "the standard" with its gravity.

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[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Isn't there a group of people now that's working to improve the ActivityPub spec and actually define things so applications don't implement it differently?

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

None of that matters if Mastodon doesnt implement these suggestions or standards. And from past experience its extremely unlikely that they will. Thats why I think its best to ignore what Mastodon does, its not our concern how they decide to render things.

[–] Fisch@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago

That's kind of what I meant too, if there's a standardised and correct way to implement things, that's how projects should implement it instead of trying to do it the "Mastodon" way

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