Vegetable Gremlin ⍼👻Madness period mastodon had people absolutely livid about how they had better definitely never include this feature or that feature because folks got convinced that it was software options that made people insufferable rather than for example "being people" made people insufferable
St Woke of Pronouns@vegetablegremlin i'm sure we'll have a resurgence of that stuff once eugen opens the quootgates
@glencoe is that like on deck or in the cards at all it seems like its been years since that was even floated and everyone wailed, gnashed teeth etc
@vegetablegremlin yeah they got quoots a couple weeks ago on dot social and dot online.
Looks alright but it's only on servers that have the latest mainline masto and have enabled it, so uptake is slow afaict.
@vegetablegremlin seems like they addressed most of the issues people had with the idea tbh, but ofc eugen is still getting yelled at by everybody lol
anna, a criticality incident at the gender accelerator@glencoe @vegetablegremlin one of the lesser volleys in the "pleroma is nazi software" wars was that it (well, akkoma anyway) has had quoteposts for years now lol
@glencoe @vegetablegremlin i was kind of an asshole about the discover directory when that came out which i a little bit regret but i had some valid concerns about surveilance at the time that havent panned out yet but still could so 