also just as a thing, in general 'you shouldnt impliment this because it isnt the platonic ideal of <thing>' doesnt actually fly.
no im not talking about the not-quite-almost-ok privacy stuff, i mean... christ so many features that people say cant even be worked on because any solutions that can be done wont be absolutely perfect
like, so many things -- privacy, DM stuff, a sort of extended local, friends of friends, etc etc. doing things that federate *only to masto*.
cant currently do them perfectly in the way other things want, so might as well never amirite
@nire also some questionable knowledge of the protocol being implemented (or dishonest leadership, but never first assume malice) going on? I probed the tiniest bit about selective federation and got this resulting thread lol https://icosahedron.website/users/shel/updates/40142