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 Friendica I mean
@nire "if you don't like it, why don't you go make your own"
"no not like that"
@nire caps from instances would help, so say you won't federate private posts if the instance doesn't signal it supports that.
@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
@nire there's are some naysayers on the non-Masto side of the fence who complain that Mastodon is bad because this has already happened with some features, rather than investigating why people want or need those features and trying to come to solutions that would benefit GS, Friends etc as well and I find that attitude infuriating