@weekinfediverse@mitra.social @oliphant@oliphant.social's Posty is funny... because it references the phrase “readable by any compliant software” that is in Mastodon's UI, but it's a completely tongue-in-cheek statement because there are probably zero softwares capable of doing anything meaningful with the exported data.

(Well, one now, Posty, heh.)

So it's a rewording of "PRs welcome"... or "we are meeting you halfway, you have to do the other half".

Perhaps there's no ill intent behind it, but I find it just a bit pretentious to say it's in a common format when there realistically weren't any for a good long while.

It's like me saying NodeBB plugins are "compatible with any compliant software", knowing full well they're only really compatible with NodeBB.