mastodon meta (fairly important)
gargron is now on record as saying that the mastodon api is only for mastodon
https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101489738840502100
what this basically means is that the mastodon ecosystem of apps, helpful tools, etc will only ever be reliably compatible with mastodon with the rest of us jumping through hoops to try to reverse engineer it
so, in summary, a community that is allegedly federated actually does have an avenue through which one platform can control it. just fact.
makes u think?
mastodon meta (fairly important)
@scarly He is saying that the API was only designed for Mastodon, not for any other software. If Pleroma (or other projects) implement the API in different ways, there is no way it would be compatible. Maybe this could be solved if developers of both projects worked together on this, but Mastodon is definitely not at fault here.
mastodon meta (fairly important)
@nutomic except that the developers of other projects are trying to work together, but the addendum to what gargron said is that the api documentation is not going to speak to interoperability.
i'm sorry but that definitely is something that mastodon is at fault for, because it's within gargron's power to maintain a healthy ecosystem for the fediverse. app developers will likely not try to implement multiple apis
if mastodon is exclusionary then that's a problem
mastodon meta (fairly important)
@scarly The way I read it, Gargron is talking about the current state of things (ie "API was never intended to be ..."). I think that could be changed, or new documentation could be written for a cross-project API. But that would need more effort than just trying to copy the API.