Its convenience. 99% don't care about anything apart from getting what they need. The blackout caused them inconvenience so its therefore annoying. Its the same attitude that can appear when workers take strike action.

Well, the issue is that although both an instance that uses Mastodon and an instance that uses Lemmy communicate using ActivityPub, the way the might choose to display the passed info is different. Lemmy for example can have longer posts than Mastodon (a micro blogging service) can handle.

There does need to be a way to handle that but I don't think its really in place yet. Let's not forget the fediverse is a very young thing, not all the issues are resolved yet.

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I'm terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

Are you being human trafficked?

Oh wow, I'd forgotten all about geek code.