There are dozens of us. Dozens!!!

I agree, but this would only work if people used RSS in the mainstream. They should but they don’t. So it seems posting to a social account that people can follow for updates is the path of least resistance.

or has been repaired by a third party.

Oh, the horror!

It’s ironic that a FOSS self-hosted app would use a platform where you must forfeit your privacy to register and ask a question.