Post #2246209
2026-05-07 07:32 UTC
@ash@icosahedron.website @jaffathecake@mastodon.social "web standards" are misunderstood, in part, because trailing vendors have had a long history of trying to obscure the central role of voluntary adoption in Internet Standards. That's a problem that I've written about:
https://infrequently.org/2025/08/how-do-committees-fail-to-invent/
The firmer ground to argue from is that there doesn't appear to be a path to plausible interoperability.
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@jaffathecake@mastodon.social 2026-05-07 07:34
@slightlyoff@toot.cafe @ash@icosahedron.website …and that the API requires complying with a Google ToS. And that developer sentiment was (assuming good faith) poorly represented.
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@ash@icosahedron.website 2026-05-07 07:46
@slightlyoff@toot.cafe @jaffathecake@mastodon.social > The firmer ground to argue from is that there doesn't appear to be a path to plausible interoperability. That’s a more polite way of “fuck your complaints, we’re shipping anyway”