Most HTTP APIs are meant for clients to interact with web applications. tent.io is different in that it has a HTTP API that your application must expose if it wants to "participate" in the tent.io version of the Federated/Decentralized Social Web.

This approach is problematic for two primary reasons:

1. If an existing service wants to support these "protocols" they need to surrender a part of their URI space, and
2. Be forced to maintain a parallel URI space for things that are already modeled in their system.

While this approach might be ideal for a cleanroom environment, it's inappropriate for the chaotic and complex web that exists today as the cost of interop with existing systems is high.

Is this intentional?