!developers In the last release, the old API became worse again. The api/friendica/notification is not existing anymore despite being in the documentation. The API /conversation/show have in_reply_to_I'd which make not sense. In the API /statuses/friends_timeline the news have three user objects which are all the same, even for reposts. For posts with embedded content the images are not in the attachments as was the case in earlier versions.
All this leads me to the conclusion, that these APIs are not in the developers focus, are not tested afterbchanges and degrade over time.
Are App developers required to use the Mastodon API?
Cheers, Marco
Please report any issues.
Concerning the future: Currently the Mastodon- and the Twitter-API are using different id values for the items. This will eventually change. Then it will make sense to use all API flavours in a wild mix. It is not planned to deprecate the Twitter API. The opposite is true. It should be now possible to register via OAuth and to use any part of the API.