@Claire it's really weird that simultaneously bsky is

mcc

1. Selling itself on federation

2. Discussing future monetization strategies incompatible with federation https://bsky.app/profile/dryad.technology/post/3l7bjpaeczs2q

3. Some of the most popular and desired core features are incompatible with federation (qrt cancel, logged-in-only accounts)

mcc

@Claire and like, 2 and 3 work, like actually work, because bsky.app is the only frontend that matters, but also that goes so strongly against any straightforward interpretation of federation,

Erin 💽✨

@mcc @Claire the comment in that thread that the character limit cannot change because that would break the backwards & forward compatibility rules -

-- that is a decision