IIRC, PF-dev Rimu recently explained exactly why he was trialing such limits in a recent software update post. I.e., to create a more efficient internal & external software / HW backbone, for us users, AFAIK. Based on network / host / server loads etc, as I read the updates.
But yeah… the amount of recent negative reaction so far upon that seems… weirdly outsized?
(like, WTF?)
Like-- who the heck comes here exhausted upon corporate social media, and expects a free, open-source community of devs not to tinker with the road-posts and such…?
Pardon my puzzlement here, but I’m a happy PF contributor, and love @[email protected]. Both the dev here and PJ are friends of a sort, and some people I will always try to support.
I can even understand, that the voting quota is a measure against network’s bot abuse, but the automatic measure is IMHO too soon for a network of scale of today’s Threadiverse. One could even argue, that so few bots can skew the feeds on this network, but as voting on Fediverse is public (in spite of softwares trying to obscure it to appease the fledditors), this still can be tackled up by few moderation actions.
And are you closely-working with the body of ActivityPub devs and future-planners in order to make such sweeping statements upon a completely free-to-use service like this…?