Post 3438283 by scarly@computerfairi.es
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(DIR) Post #3438283 by scarly@computerfairi.es
2019-01-27T19:16:47Z
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gargron is now on record as saying that the mastodon api is only for mastodonhttps://mastodon.social/@Gargron/101489738840502100what 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 itso, 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?
(DIR) Post #3441613 by TheHottestPotato@cybre.space
2019-01-27T19:28:19Z
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@scarly part of me wants to say that the federated part isnt the part where clients interact with the servers, its where the servers interact with eachother.But the other part of me wants to point out that mastodon could absolutely be implementing a form of the activity pub client/server API standard rather than using its own proprietary one for whatever reason it was decided. The fact that AP is,, fun to implement,, only makes this problem worse.
(DIR) Post #3441614 by teslas_moustache@anticapitalist.party
2019-01-27T21:11:33Z
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@TheHottestPotato @scarly where does anyone say the API is proprietary?
(DIR) Post #3461146 by MatejLach@social.matej-lach.me
2019-01-28T09:46:41Z
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@scarly Looking at that toot, it's a bit of a spin take. What he said is that the Plemora users were rather rude(!), which you skipped over. Other than that, all he's really saying is that the Mastodon API was made for Mastodon, which makes sense, thus if anyone wants to be compatible with it, it is up to them do so so, (Eugen's a Mastodon dev, not a Plemora dev), especially if they're rude, why should you have the energy to help them?