can some poor soul just delve into the php write an GNU Social addon that does mastodon interoperability for Mastodon As It Is so everyone stops worrying about GNU social federation at the least
@KitRedgrave i mean yeah but like
it's either Shitty Fix That'll Become Required or Nothing, Ever
@boots Or Mastodon can quit breaking things :)
@KitRedgrave do you have any proposals for making the current feature-set work with other instance software
@boots I do: fix the line break weirdness, move to using conversation_id in status chains instead of stitching together in_reply_to, add NodeInfo or some other out of band means to identify a Mastodon node for delivering "DMs" to, later add !groups to the software, tweak response codes to not differ so severely that GS instances consider them federation failures and keep retrying... there is a lot of stuff that Mastodon seems to do out of spec and nobody is listening
@boots oh and stop dumping HTML into portable contacts
@KitRedgrave all of that's fair except for groups
groups are weird and out-of-spec and they're basically so far-off and not necessary yet that i wouldn't even list them >_>
@boots no because we're going to keep breaking it and also that'll become a required thing