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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