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 (DIR) Post #Axhx0Cs3KlQLZJDdFQ by adam@toot.nels.onl
       2025-08-30T19:57:58Z
       
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       I've been trying to design a new federated chat protocol, Chatterbox, that improves on Matrix and XMPP and is simpler to use and implement than either.But, after a lot of work designing a WebSocket+Protobuf API, I've had to ask myself... why isn't this just REST?https://adam.nels.onl/blog/why-not-rest/I really don't want to make it just a plain old boring REST API, but if I want this to be easy to understand and implement, it seems like the obvious choice. Am I just overcomplicating it?Feedback is appreciated, if you have any.