Mastodon 3.5
I'd like to see more attention put into carving out a subset of Mastodon's functionality that would allow you to host your fediverse node on a static site, à la blog feeds powered by RSS/Atom.<p>The discovery problem can be handled pretty straightforwardly: if you want notifications of replies to your posts, then that's just another feed that you subscribe to—a <i>separate</i> service.  You don't exactly <i>need</i> an always-on "instance" providing an inbox endpoint to relay notifications to you.<p>You give up private channels (DMs), but you gain a lot more flexibility.  It's a shame that there are so few server (and client) implementations for "the fediverse".  We should have at least half as many options as we have in static site generators themselves.  (In fact, with this approach, your preferred static site generator could <i>become</i> part of your "client"...)<p>Imagine your corner of the fediverse being reachable at $YOURNAME.github.io.<p>Prior art: Fritter <<a href="https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/beakerbrowser/fritter</a>>