@lanodan @p @NonPlayableClown

That's an endemic problem with sw dev. It's such a vast field of knowledge that inevitably people who think they're doing something revolutionary end up reinventing the wheel (often badly) for no good reason just because we don't know what we don't know. Googling doesn't always help. I've certainly done it, but thankfully not at scale.

On a slight tangent, personally I like YAML for data presentation. Not because it's bandwidth friendly (not withstanding gzip), but because it's human readable. It's also nice to have a message based format to send separate but related discrete chunks of info. But that's really up to the use-case. I'm sure lots of other people passionately hate YAML, including the folks who have to write the parsers for it. LOL On the plus side, JSON is valid YAML. Several months ago I wrote a Perl CGI website templating engine that represents HTML DOM as YAML data (just for shits and giggles), then abandoned it because it's probably a bad idea. But it's featureful and works fwiw. And the other day I learned about this bad-boy which even though I'll probably never learn/use it, kinda gives me a boner. https://github.com/yaml/yamlscript
Can you imagine if someone implemented a fedi protocol using that paradigm? I have little doubt it'd end with a forest of torches and pitchforks marching in the street.