How mastodon _actually works_ is different from how people _feel_ it should work and I would assert that in general you don't _want_ people to care about the underlying details of how these things work.
Not because it isn't good to know these things, but because your average person should not have to care about what the FLP result says for the affordances granted by their system. They should be able to _just_ care about those affordances.
But the perception here is strongly not that.
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