Guess I best get over there then. Sounds like a place to voice my concerns without resorting to public appeals.

You just said you’re only interacting with a small group of independent admins, but now you’re making a conflated statement of “many Admins”.

I can be working with a small set of independent instance admins (brought together by a newer instance and discussions mostly through discord) and I've helped them test a few things and our little discord meta-community is already constructing new features, auto-posting bots of different types (RSS feeds, even posts, etc), and a few other things.

However, this is different from "Most Admins" where my interactions are largely based in the meta/support channels for other instances. This is a much more confusing population to me since many were exposed to the entire "Lemmy is for Authoritarian Communists" that was making the rounds on reddit. It's resulted in a newer cohort of Admins that aren't nearly as friendly to the development team.

The only reason you got what you wanted in the end was because someone else put in the work to make it happen

Nah, I would've made the change myself, but it wouldn't do a darn thing because it depends on the inherent security of less technical admins. This project is as much impacted by individual decisions as they are collective ones.

And until the maintainers changed their mind, they likely wouldn't have allowed a resurrection of the old Captcha anyways - so your point about another person "doing the work" only was really possible once the maintainers communicated that it was acceptable. Because, as stated in my previous point, an individual instance with this change (reverting captcha) doesn't protect them from instances that don't.

This all points back to my original point which revolves around new admins understanding the importance of engaging the maintainers and making themselves heard. The fact that people who already do this took offence to my post is a little bizarre because I'm clearly not talking about the people who haven been communicating.

Sure, those who've been with the Fediverse for a bit are familiar with Matrix and how to use it to communicate back to the core developers. But the new influx of instances and their admins either A - don't know where to go, B - don't care, or C - are so ideologically opposed to the rumors they want nothing to do with them.