@jdp23 You are more than welcome to quote and link!
And yeah, I may have been projecting some of my own discomforts a bit. The last few calls for a hard fork, to me, have felt less like “let’s build our own thing together!” and more like a call to abandon Mastodon in favor of this amazing hypothetical fork where some other person is the SABDFL.
I think there is very much a need for an alternative to Mastodon. I’m not sure it’s necessarily Mastodon itself.