Good advice! I definitely planned on utilizing existing implementations or proposals of implementations. That honestly seems like a much better place to have this discussion overall, thanks!

I feel like there is an option to hide posts you have seen already, but not sure how.

Totally fair, and I understand the skepticism. I am not promising anything here, all I can tell you is what my intentions and overall plans are, but you have no reason to take me at my word.

This is a big one I think. Most people I think are under the impression that the fediverse is fully portable and you can just migrate instances without any hiccups, which is not 100% true. Only your followers/following list can migrate, but posts are permanently locked to your instance, which is kind of surprising to learn.

Critical missing feature, for sure!

Fwiw, I have a shoddy foundation that is not worth showing to the public yet. I will be open sourcing and opening up to contributors when it is in some form of an alpha phase, but right now it is solidly pre alpha, so I am not yet developing in the open, but just putting feelers out on what the community wants.

Honestly could not think of a single thing that they could do to get me to download the launcher. None of those features make it steam, and never will

How will this be enforced?