> I'd love to see a revision that deprecates and simplifies a whole lot of things.
The hidden complexities in AP have led to several efforts. In the past there has been LitePub [0]. A recent project is Versia [1]. And who knows there may be a FeatherPub [2] one day. If anyone knows of other attempts I'd like to hear.
Thanks. I remember looking at Litepub. Not aware of the other two. The FeatherPub document feels like by far the most useful.
But I also think just going through the spec with a red marker would be a useful exercise and maybe I will one day.
In the sense that there are a whole lot of features nobody does anything useful with.
E.g. "@context" in theory provides a whole lot of ways to type the rest of the data. I'd be willing to bet that you'd break a whole lot of software if you served up a "@context" for an actor that mapped common field-names in use by Mastodon to a different namespace and mapped the Mastodon features to different names...
In theory it's great. In practice, I suspect we have XML namespaces and people stupidly hardcoding prefixes all over again...
The hidden complexities in AP have led to several efforts. In the past there has been LitePub [0]. A recent project is Versia [1]. And who knows there may be a FeatherPub [2] one day. If anyone knows of other attempts I'd like to hear.
[0] https://litepub.social/
[1] https://versia.pub/
[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/13LuB6Z-C_drCLCEuCtNApX98...