You're right about it all, it's a wild west. But it has users like no other federated social platform.

If you're willing to embrace the chaos, it's not really a bad thing. It's survival of the fittest. We don't need incompetent working groups "tie breaking", especially not in this hostile internet. The ActivityPub people talk and talk and talk and talk and never actually do anything.

Anyway it's why we need a Transmogrifier: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/rebased/-/blob/develop/lib/pleroma/web/activity_pub/transmogrifier.ex