What I believe stands between us and v2.0 release now is the fixing of the db:migrate thing
Everything else is less critical. Although it's funny how 1.6 was huge, but merely a "minor" release because of full backwards-compatibility, while 2.0 is kinda small but gets a "major" release because of API changes 
Here are some of the major features of the upcoming v2.0 as of now:
- Custom emojis
- New emoji picker
- New emoji images (twemoji)
- Emoji autosuggestions
- Ability to define themes for admins and select a theme in preferences for users
- No more private toots sent over OStatus
- When only one image/gif attached to toot, it's displayed uncropped in detail/public view
- New error page with elephant friend
I dunno, would you be happy with just that?
@gargron any idea if we’ll ever get an embed when a toot link is tooted? (like the way quoting a tweet works on the birdsite)
@taiz No, I don't think so. It leads to a rather terrible atmosphere. There's a very small margin where people use it for good, like "look at this great artwork", but usually it gets used as a faux-reply except addressed at one's followers, as a sort of invitation to dogpile. Even when calling out like that is acceptable, putting bad content into your followers' timelines leads to bad moods. And when it's used to chain own train of thought... It's like self-replying, but with a lot more clicking
@gargron @taiz @jeroenpraat
missing it also in mastodon.
I think one need to remember that mastodons communication culture is way different from twitter.
But I like tge attitude to keep that in mind, if building it all in away to promote having a greater athmosphere.
@jeroenpraat @taiz @gargron
for news current events and such I would call this feature even as being cruical
@Gargron @taiz a lot of my Twitter threats are meshes not linear self replies. It's one of the things I miss on this platform. At the same time I definitely agree with you. However wasn't the direct quote method originally designed on Twitter to avoid the whole screen capping thing that was happening? I don't know I'd rather prefer to know if somebody is sharing my content to a different audience versus just being blind to it.
@taiz @Gargron I definitely don't have the solution in mind though, I was planning on implementing a system where I could only quote toot people who are mutually follows when I actually spun up my own server. But as something across the entire Federation I could see that being really messy to implement.
Thank you for taking time to think about this stuff more fully and not just jump into implementing something that could be dangerous.
@taiz @Gargron
There's a larger mechanic design principle at play.
Here's references on the idea of community management copied out of a twitter thread:
Its interesting to model communities by what the social network implicitly incentivizes at scale.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRlYM9F50EQ&ab_channel=RymDeCoster
"how we can stop abuse in online communities before it happens" - @anildash
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tehfZBHrltE
"If you're not sending the message of what's inappropriate [...] You're saying please do more..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEc6Eyogb9Y
@Gargron @taiz Maybe the issue needs to be thought of under the heading of link previews in general? It is good for discovery to see the title at least of quoted content, if not also a preview image. Toots would just be a special case of quoted content in general. A preview--of a webpage, or of a toot--can provide important context for what I have to say about it.
@Gargron @taiz I don't agree with this. Of course people misuse it, but on the other hand is it the #1 feature from Twitter I miss in here. I used it a lot. And yes also sometimes to criticize tweets, but most of the time to add valuable extra information.
Also don't forget that people are already able to make screenshots of toots, and comment on that.