I wasn’t excited. I was too busy wondering how people in the US were too stupid (a general humanity problem to be sure) to realize the world wasn’t ending when nothing happened in all the other time zones that transitioned to the new year before us.

eventually both of you will come to a conclusion

But not necessarily an agreement.

I don’t see this winning, but I do see SLAPP suits and harassment bring an issue for our administrators. You also have to consider LEO investigations and cybersecurity requirements. This is something folks need to understand and harden themselves for now, or get out of the game.

Would an app that pulls directly from each server (anonymously) or an app that pulls from dedicated servers (while logged in/subbed) be better? The first is more efficient but the instance owners likely won’t be [financially] supported, while the latter requires duplication and is prone to defederation issues. In the end I suspect overcoming defederation will be a significant design goal of third party apps.