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Nice demonstration of why mastodon's dominance is problematic (hachyderm.io)
submitted 4 months ago by maegul@hachyderm.io to c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
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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.

#fediverse #mastodon
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[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 12 points 4 months ago

Maybe I'm just not awake enough but I'm not entirely following exactly what's going on. Can you give me a quick summary?

[-] maegul@hachyderm.io 8 points 4 months ago

@Trainguyrom

Ha
AFAIU, two platforms other than mastodon (lemmy and discourse) have issues federating because at least one of them is trying federate well with mastodon (for obvious reasons). The mastodon quirk causing issues is, AFAIU, the way it kinda mangles articles and pages (long form formats in ActivityPub), which are appropriate for forums and link-aggregators like lemmy and discourse. So someone hints been done to work well with mastodon’s mangling, which hurts lemmy-discourse interop

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 4 points 4 months ago

Oh so it's a compatibility triangle of C being compatible with A makes it incompatible with B? Sounds like a mess for sure

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