IMO it must be a YAML because there is a lot of tool and libraries existing for this language. You can easily build a syntax validators for you schema and it allows developer to extends it easily.
Or an alternative solution could be to use more the YAML frontmatter to put the data.
I also live Mastodon but i'm lost with the Twitter style. I feel lost with tweets/retweets views. The reddit/lemmy tree comments like oks more natural to me.
I wonder if someones already build a Reddit styles view for mastodon.
I agree it's seems like a subset of YAML.
IMO it must be a YAML because there is a lot of tool and libraries existing for this language. You can easily build a syntax validators for you schema and it allows developer to extends it easily.
Or an alternative solution could be to use more the YAML frontmatter to put the data.