It's not nonsensical. It's not doable, though, either—owing to fundamental assumptions/flaws in the protocol (where "protocol" here refers to the Mastodon-compatible implementations that are in actual [read: majority] use today).

It wouldn't take much to fix it, though, and it should be fixed. TPTB really should have focused on enabling your use case from the beginning.

Moar discussion here:

Comments for "Mastodon 3.5" (6 months ago)

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