@imanijoy @Mastodon Every time I see these posts talking about "Mastodon" as though it's a unitary thing that can be steered, I get confused.

Is this about the back end (for example, whether algorithms other than chronological order will be available as standard on the server/instance side) or about the front end (for example, a specific app that someone who has an account on a server uses to read, write, and interact with posts)? Or both? And if an app is involved, which one?

The last time I saw a bunch of stuff about "Mastodon" framed this way, it turned out to be an app-specific thing that made peoples' content warnings bad, but that didn't affect me because I don't use that app. But this sounds like it includes back end stuff that might affect me?

So confused....