@lain yeah well *maybe* they like you and therefore like pleroma, and hate gargron and therefore hate mastodon and will find any bullshit reason for it. They could accept change from one source but none other, it's pretty common.

good luck with pleroma, i think it's a good project.
it wouldn't come to my mind to aggressively complain to you it's breaking the federation by not implementing activitypub or by implementing it.