@dev_m It does, however, matter for implementers and people running services even if that isn't the focus.
Having 100 people run 10 person services is orders of magnitude more expensive for those people than running 1 x 1000 person service and that matters for those 100 people.
Especially because the fediverse has culturally rejected major funding models (which is not a bad thing at all, but it does limit options).
@hrefna @dev_m I think more efficient protocols didn't really catch on, because they would be trickier to standardize (and implement). AP is very universal.
I'd be curious to know what the overhead of JSON-LD would be here in comparison to using some kind of binary protocol (I'm guessing).
For what it's worth, performance does matter to implementers. Some alternatives to Mastodon on the fediverse explicitly advertise the fact that they're less resource intensive.
