Post #1339706
2026-04-13 16:24 UTC
@evan
What I thought to do the other day we had the discussion, but didn't have time for, was create the hypotethical future Mastodon profile of my account, where some technical construct of tags took all the available profile bio characters leaving just enough to say "Hi, I am Arnold (out or chars)" followed by a combinatorial mismash of app-specific profile-logic I require to have to operate my account on the fedi to work well.
It is protocol decay. AP let's you express that kinda logic, and it was made to convey these things.
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@smallcircles@social.coop 2026-04-13 16:34
@evan It is both protocol decay as well as "misconception" in the way Rich Hickey meant in his Hammock Driven Development talk. The longer such practices are allowed to exist, the more inertia and reluctance to there is to come to better practices, and the question about evolution is again Im Frage. "Look we all have bio profile processors in our apps, and now you are telling us to drop that, just to make it look more like activitypub? We can see that it may be an improvement, but this is a past station now."