@walruslifestyle trend 🙄 especially re: meta/implementation
@walruslifestyle as of yesterday, he was re-evaluating it, but also yesterday:
"well, there's people who oppose it, and people who support it"
"well, it depends on the algorithm. <expounds>"
these are both very good reasons to not implement something into the codebase, and have it be an add-on instead
@shoutcacophony right? how about server support for retrieving stats about toots and then let masto clients do what they want with those, which could include nothing (or, gasp, the ability for users to filter toots the way they want)?
@walruslifestyle oh gosh, then people would do things like want to turn off follow counts. truly horrible. how completely against the spirit of mastodon
"that sounds very much like mastodon, actually" hush
@shoutcacophony
*flees twitter*
*re-creates twitter*
*flees new thing*
*re-creates twitter*
*flees ...
@walruslifestyle
i know the intent here isn't creepy, but, well,,,,it's almost creepy
it's like if "Get Out" was a theme ride, almost