@SuperDicq @foone @filippo
>Mastodon gGmbH has no control over the protocol and the fediverse at large. It just develops the Mastodon software.

Mastodon doesn't have control over the ActivityPub protocol itself, however Mastodon/Gargron has control over how the Fediverse functions as a whole. This has been demonstrated many times before. Either by sabotaging proposals (FEPs), disregarding proposals, ignoring ActivityPub specifications, ignoring how everybody else does things and instead doing it completely differently.

The summary part of the object used for post titles was used like that before Mastodon was a thing and Gargron reused it for content warning, forcing other servers to adapt to this stupidity. When Mastodon adopts quote replies or emoji reacts, it's pretty much guaranteed that they will do it differently than everybody else.

The nature of the ActivityPub specifications also doesn't help at all. It forces developers to make things up, or lie about certain things. It's very much a non-specification.

You can see the effects of this when you listen to normies/media. For them Fediverse isn't a thing. It's called the Mastodon network. It's Gargron's network and we are just living on it.