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Standardisation does nothing for this. The software could've always just used an X-Sunset header or just another field in their dto.

My point was that there will never be a client that will blindly read that value and understand what to do with it. Which is why the only difference to "X-Sunset" is that there's an RFC with suggestions on how it could potentially be meant there, along with a syntax restriction.

ActivityPub is the epitome of this because they supply a lot of vocabulary and syntax variation to express them (including very complex ways to normalise that syntax, JSON-LD is not fun to parse) but doesn't actually made the implementation commit to anything. It's setting up a bunch of arbitrary rules for nothing. Every single AP implementation still orients itself on compatibility with Mastodon.



>Standardisation does nothing for this

Sure it does. If the information is standardized then the community as a whole can innovate around it. Browser plugins and the like can be made that make use of the information, etc.




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