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 weβll 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 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
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