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Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic (hachyderm.io)
submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months 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?

[–] xcjs 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

It's a W3C managed standard, but there are tons of behavior not spelled out in the specification that platforms can choose to impose.

The standard doesn't impose a 500 character limit, but there's nothing that says there can't be a limit.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

That's not what I meant. I read at some point that there's a group of people trying to build a wiki or something, so others, who want to make fediverse software, can look up best-practices and the like. They also wanted to make demo software to test the federation against, so Mastodon doesn't have to be used for that.

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