History doesn’t transfer to desktop clients. Only new content after desktop client is added is synced,

It was a conscious decision for them not to enforce E2EE by default. https://web.archive.org/web/20211215132539/https://infosec-handbook.eu/articles/xmpp-aitm/

XMPP clients have like 10 different implementations because of that and are not always consistent with each other or even function universally across platforms.

But I’m not an author. That would be @nateb@mastodon.thenewoil.org.

I think it’s a distraction from the actual interactions. Same way karma is.

I’m all for supporting instances and open source developers, but any kind of reward for a donation creates wrong incentives. Donation is called a donation because it’s a gift without expecting something in return.