And here I thought the way to get @Gargron's attention was to be polite... If I was in Gargron's position and testing out a feature got me so much bile, I'd question whether it was worth it to continue the project.
Like, what is @Gargron supposed to do exactly if he wants to test a feature? AFAIK, large social media sites test new features by rolling them to a limited set of users first. In this case, as I understand it, it was just a trending tags widget that didn't affect existing ways of interacting with Mastodon, so as a developer, I can see why he didn't see any harm in it, especially when it's just on one instance.
@thor Hey, the right way to get my attention is still to be polite