@feb @silverpill @julian I also twitch every time I see long-form content described as some kind of gnarly problem. But Julian describes a real change that's happened recently, although I wouldn't phrase it the way he did. Partly it's that Mastodon has become more open to collaboration. But mostly it's that the dev community has realised the need for working groups and formal standards processes, rather than a crowd of developers pursuing ideas individually and then arguing with each other about what's "standard". And that really has made the difference for long-form content.