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@rysiek Maybe we could suggest server alternatives to people that complain about stuff.
e.g.: when someone says "hey, Mastodon is cool but I wish I could have quote-toots etc." we could say "hey, come to libranet.de, we have this, but also that&this&etc. And you can get to keep your followers and follows"
Yup. The problem is that these users will have trouble understanding how can it be "Mastodon" without being Mastodon, if you get my drift. Plus, ideally this would also be done by Mastodon-the-software project — "if you want functionality X, check out instances of this compatible-but-different software project."
But absolutely, doing so yourself in such cases makes perfect sense.
Yeah. I've also seen a lot of people point out that he's kind of hijacking the whole networks branding with "mastodon" too. Because it's not mastodon, it's activitypub, the protocol and the network is activitypub, which one can use via an array of apps and clents and servers. But he acts like the whole is just his mastodon, mastodon, and mastodon.