@jdp23 @laurenshof @renchap re blog post, I think given the socialhub discussion and this thread, I've learned that no matter how mindful I thought we had been, there is still more work to do to clarify and demonstrate that we're listening and learning (and working with others).
I think its not so much a matter of being as careful and mindful as possible (while thats obviously a great thing to do), but that fedi is lacking the political layer for diplomacy between different fediverse platforms. 'Listening and Learning' is a framing between a platform and its end-users. But what I think is going wrong here is not seeing other platforms as equal partners that need to be negotiated with
this is not only a Mastodon problem, but a wider fediverse problem. We only have FEPs as a tool for this, but those are technical specifications that are being mangled into a diplomacy framework. Which, not surprisingly, is kind of difficult to do well