@flawed@kolektiva.social @TindrasGrove @matthew_d_green

IMO that'd be rather terrible, because it would force all the clients to either ignore these preferences or conform to the idea of what preferences even make any sense that the server author had. (For example, how should this preference be understood by a client that shows a threaded view?)

Granted, there are a few such preferences that can be expressed in terms that are very client-intependent (e.g. "should the client require explicit user action before showing an image"), though these also suffer from that problem (it would make a lot of sense to have a client that allows the user to specify an expression that determines whether an image is shown immediately).