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okay i'm fed up of seeing this thread lol

Issue is, this was not the standard for the majority of the fedis existence. it was then added in the backend as something that worked but no FE's worked with it. The issue was that gleason (think it was the other guy but icr the name) pushed an update which not just added the new way of doing it, but removed the old way, with no workaround so every other instance was unable to display it properly, effectively 'breaking' the fedi.

there was no phase out, no patches or workarounds for the prior versions or anything.
the issue is communication and implementation. since fedi relies on many different hosts with many different softwares, you have to be very careful when making changes to software, regardless of whether its even the right thing to do, how it was done was very poor and why people got mad about it.
There are two types of standard, 1 in a process in which things are done, 2 being how things are done currently. you may think that it is a good standard in the first sense. it was not in the second.

and thats not even talking about the ways in which FE's and BE's interact and how imo they couldve avoided the issue entirely if it was handled differently, not even talking about the older instances and software that doesnt work properly now because of it.

I hope that made sense and gives some perspective lol