Federated systems need better affordances

Ploum wrote about PixelFed sawing off the branch that the Fediverse is sitting on . He describes a kind of misuse of the protocol: PixelFed only delivers posts with images to followers. This is arguably a response to Instagram, but he makes a good point: In the Fediverse, if a poster publishes text, they expect followers to receive that message. Followers likewise expect to receive posts, but they…