Pixelfed adopted the MastoAPI for mobile app compatibility, and I love Mastodon for making that possible and not limiting it to their project only.
That being said, it's very liberating to build our own API for Loops.
We serve a very different purpose than Mastodon, and we can more efficiently represent that.
I look forward to publishing our API documentation and for 3rd party devs to build alternative clients.
When your platform is open and federated, everything is possible.
So let's build