I was super excited when I saw the headline because I am just about to deploy a headless ActivityPub server, then I realized it's a client for the Mastodon API.

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When someone's on Mastodon, and they say, "Fediverse," chances are very good that it's only Mastodon that they're talking about.

[–] rglullis@communick.news 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I understand that coming from users, but not from the project developers. They know they've built a client for the Mastodon API, so it should be described as such.

[–] JupiterRowland@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago

There have already been too many spare-time devs who came to Mastodon, got totally excited about everything, decided to develop something for "the Fediverse", built it hard against only Mastodon and then learned that the Fediverse is, in fact, not only Mastodon.

See FediDevs which, for quite a while, was built against only Mastodon and against Mastodon-specific elements of Mastodon, which did not work with anything that isn't Mastodon, but which still kept "Fedi" in its name.