My response to Manton’s response to my open voicemail. I agree with all you said, had discovered it on my own, quickly — that I could build on Mastodon’s docs (and did), but the ActivityPub maze of specs is not an API, and not something a busy developer can approach. It all has to be simplified. We’re still far away from the dream. As I said in my open voicemail — it’s time for developers to do a BDG for the social web, with docs and software, that embraces not just Mastodon and other ActivityPub services, but also Bluesky, and WordPress, which has a very mature API, offers stability, a foundation with clear value.#