The amount of Mastodon forks that mostly just change the UI, and the amount of UI bullshit Gargron creates, increasingly make me think that what's needed is to separate UI and AP more.
Adopt an API (ideally: not the Mastodon API, realistically: probably the Mastodon API) that as many projects as possible agree on and build separate projects, for handling ActivityPub and for handling web UI.
A lot of users never see Mastodon's web UI anyway, they use mobile clients, many of them third-party clients. The next logical step is to decouple UI and core development entirely.
