"Like, just say "I want my platform, because it's clearly mine, and not the userbase's, to work this way because it's the only way it'd make sense to me, and I do not care which users it harms, alienates or disenfranchises, no matter how hard some of them have been working to popularize said platform even while I've been acting in a hostile manner toward them using it.""

Some incredibly insightful comments here:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7702#issuecomment-394041017

#MastoDev #TrendingHashtags #AntiAbuse

"I'm going to ask you one last time, even if I feel like it's a waste of breath, to respect these people who are just trying to survive on your platform, some of whom, again, are still trying to get people to come to it even with you acting in ways that endanger them like this latest round of foolishness, and maybe start listening to them without being as condescending as you've been here, on the previous thread about this "feature", and elsewhere for months now."

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/7702#issuecomment-394041017