> Mastodon, while they’re doing excellent work, is trying to wrangle an already large community into a set of consistent interfaces.. Automattic has a small team whose only job is to make WordPress work with Mastodon. So I can build software that works with Mastodon without venturing into the rough seas of Mastodon-land, I can stay on the cruise-liner, which is the WordPress API.
Wordpress doesn’t have native built post to Facebook/Twitter/etc. functionality so I’m not sure what the author is still advocating for…an API layer to post to social networks still is just a Buffer.co-like. I don’t disagree but what the author is suggesting will post to social networks, then I am supposed to use whatever UI to consume the posts?
> Mastodon, while they’re doing excellent work, is trying to wrangle an already large community into a set of consistent interfaces.. Automattic has a small team whose only job is to make WordPress work with Mastodon. So I can build software that works with Mastodon without venturing into the rough seas of Mastodon-land, I can stay on the cruise-liner, which is the WordPress API.