I love Mastodon but I think a little polite wagging is justified! Groups are already being used on Mastodon but in a way that kind of sucks and is inconvenient for services with groups support. You basically have to trick Mastodon into thinking that a group is a user. As I noticed yesterday, using the user tag ("@") for a group causes Friendica to fail because it's not a user. If I click that userified group link in Lemmy, I get: "Error! Failed to fetch data for that user". So now Mastodon has a standard for group tags that screws over everyone with native support for groups. Rude! ;)
That isn't, like, an end-of-the-world problem. It's really just a minor annoyance -- I follow this group from both Lemmy and Friendica without a problem -- but if your users are working around absent features en masse in ways that cause QoL issues for others in the Fediverse, it would be nice if you took some action on it. Your users are doing this with or without you and we're all better off if it's with you. And to be fair to Mastodon, they are doing that, however slowly.
Similarly, it'll be great when 4.5 drops and the global feed on Pixelfed stops being a wall of Mastodon users using screenshots of text to "quote"...
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