"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