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@darth @nilesh well, to understand what we're saying, you have to understand a bit about AP.

AP is a standard made by the W3C group and has many different ways of doing things specifically for the goal of interoperability.

One of those being content types.

AP supports *several* different content types like "Articles", "Notes", "Audio", "Video", etc.

However, Mastodon only natively supports Notes and will convert *some* other content types to notes to make them easier to interact with, but they could have just supported those content types out of the gate if they wanted to.

That's why Lemmy and Mbin posts don't cross over well to Mastodon, for example.

They've done the same thing with the new Fediverse creator tag.

OpenGraph has a very specific way to do tags.

Mastodon does it their own way because they didn't want to have to answer to someone else. (OpenGraph)

They're very uncooperative.