@skyfallerNelson Well one person’s “under-defined” is another person’s “flexible and simple”. If people get their heads out of micro-blogging it becomes clearer why a more rigid definition becomes limiting, IMO.
@hugh @skyfallerNelson part of the problem with how “underdefined” it is, is that we’re not talking about the big picture being there but mostly in need of filling in the gaps. we’re talking about “there is no agreed-upon authorization framework” levels of “underdefined”.
the other part is that it presupposes a wildly different topology than what fedi adheres to. the most natural interpretation of “client” is not something like Tusky. the AP client would be Mastodon itself as a client of an AP server
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