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The issue that the piefed dev writes new protocols that break activitypub compatibility has been brought up before. It is not unintentional and was not unknown.
Do you imply that that was his long term goal ? Intentional. No, he made a choice. I'm not well versed on technical side. So maybe it was a bad choice from him or an alright choice because he thoughts it would work better that way. So be it.
Altough, we disagree on political side, Devs reach each other. They create a software that need communication between each other. You have to work together.
For example for flair federation, they will adapt (either piefed will change its code or lemmy) For emojis reaction they will also adapt...Another example, i reached iceshrimp dev team and asked them for the support of Piefed. Then Nutomic reached me and asked too add Lemmy too. I sent them all the info from Nutomic to iceshrimp dev team.
Admins and mods also talk to each other for banning spam, transphobia, solving issue...They are not probably on good term, there were a huge conflict but somehow they are managing the fediverse defence.
So...