mastodon api is to fedi as amazon s3 api is to object storage

proprietary and nonstandard, but people adopt it for compatibility with an existing ecosystem of software. if you didn't know any better you might think it *was* a standard, based on how many different providers implemented it. unofficial implementations have to keep track of differences in their implementations, ideally describing which operations and features are supported or unsupported at a granular level.

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