I'm very sorry to Eugen and all the development team at Mastodon who have certainly put in a lot of time and energy.
But stuff like this.... it just breaks me.
I can't use Mastodon, as a product, or as a social network, if I'm now aware that there's an entire invisible ecosystem of jury-rigged usage protocols that have somehow become "unofficial official etiquette" but are actually really difficult for humans to do.
It's weird that THIS is what's pushing me off this whole network! But it is.