[Ferkv]

> the main challenge there is not the spec but getting buying from at least Mastodon

Which is why promoting a new competing and incompatible protocol is a good way to push for change.

You want Microsoft to become more open? Then start promoting a pure FLOSS alternative until they can't ignore it anymore.

[vidarh]

You could do the same a lot easier by pushing an incompatible change to ActivityPub that'd be easy to adopt.