@tess @smallcircles @cheddarcrisp while protocol-level support would be ideal, both of these features can work fine (and have been implemented in Bonfire) without it:

- personas (multiple profiles per account) appear as separate users to everyone else, and can be followed individually

- when you address a post to a circle(s) it’s usually not a public post, so we basically bcc the circle members so their servers know who to show it to (similar to a group DM)