Super excited to announce, we just merged a Plugin system for #Ecko which is a first for any fork of Mastodon!
The first plugin is a Stripe integration which was proposed in previous discussions for plugins for Mastodon. If you'd like to take a look at the PR, here it is: https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko/pull/290
Please share any issues at https://github.com/magicstone-dev/ecko/issues
@weex I remember @saper once said that a plugin system for Mastodon might be a very nice and very insecure idea. :) On the other hand, Friendica and Hubzilla isolate a lot of features into plugins. Both projects' core teams archive older plugins that are no longer maintained / supported or were reported to have issues. So, in their case, the security of plugins might be expected to be the responsibility of the core team (aka those who have the right to merge ;) ).