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The mastodon developers are us.
It's open source so yeah...my PRS are part of the community. And so are yours. And projects like GoToSocial make it seemless if someone wants to implement the same protocol in a slightly different way.
That's really not how it works, especially in regards to what OP is referring to. Anyone can offer contributions to mastodon, but that doesn't mean they'll be accepted. Mastodon has an organization and that organizations has opinions on what should and shouldn't be implemented. For example, Mastodon doesn't federate favorites, so you only see the amount of favorites a post has recieved from your own interest. I'd like for this to be changed, and I could submit a PR to do so, but it wouldn't be accepted.
Pretty much this, which leads to a bajillion different forks and similar-but-not-quite alternatives that have some neat features but lack others, which your instance of choice probably won't ever migrate to and which all risk being abandoned by the single person that decides to work on it.
Just to give a taste of forks - https://codeberg.org/fediverse/delightful-fediverse-apps/issues/47
The mastodon devs decide what to merge, though. If they don't see the value of a feature, they won't merge it.
If you want to extend the protocol, sure, go ahead. But you'll be alone on it, since no one outside of your protocol island can use that specific feature.
inb4 "it's not my job to contribute to a community project when there's a slick corporate alternative" which is basically just saying "it's not my job to make the world a better place." (Actually that's everyone's job, all the time.)
"Wahhhh, I shouldn't have to learn to code, or garden, or be a street medic, or learn to do anything to take care of other people ever. I should have it all spoon-fed to me by corporations that don't give a fuck if I live or die!"
And yet there are somehow those of us who have the audacity to call Boomers lazy and entitled. We're obviously no fucking better.