@laxla well, regarding replies, I mostly just don't understand the logic. I understand wanting to remove someone's hostile, rude, or just plain misinformation reply. However, psychics don't exist so limiting to replies to only people that follow you, while the post is still publicly visible, doesn't really make sense cause there could be rude people following that reply and you don't know what someone will say before they say it.🤷♂️
Regarding the stats, they were falsifying stats to fedidb.org which is rude and hostile for no reason other than being rude and hostile. They could simply report null stats if they wanted to.
It just seems like they want a closed platform and are shooting themselves in the foot and complaining about the pain by using ActivityPub in their software.🤷♂️