2017: mastodon instances
2018: everybody writes their own ActivityPub server from scratch, the fediverse gets real weird
@CobaltVelvet yooooo vson sounds great
it'll spin off a couple of variants for faster parsing and streaming; ud+vson ("uhhh"-delimited vson) and sd+vson ("stop"-delimited vson, which functions like oldschool telegrams, where you say "stop" between syntactically valid interpretable segments of a message)