Understanding is simple. Every few years, 5 or 8 or 10, there’s a big marketing push and brain wash around trying to destroy encryption by using the excuse of CSAM. Nothing new, a play as old as ever. It’s basically (and really the whole point) trying to pass mass surveillance into law hoping that people forget the arguments of the last time or that people are not paying attention or trying to put it wrapped into a different gift wrapping and see if it goes into effect before anyone notices. The time frames for these things are getting smaller and smaller and more and more people don’t care at all about privacy and basic rights and are ok with things like mass surveillance. It will eventually pass.
It’s as if it’s a big problem to manage one more platform between all the ones they already do. Lot’s of apps and options to just automatically cross post content to multiple platforms too or just mirror mastodon to Twitter or vice versa.
At this point, ignoring or avoiding another platform where so many people already are is just laziness.
I read the other day something about being a limitation that google official app only supports that and all the other are forced to use the same to be compatible.
https://lobste.rs/s/gqoj5n/passkeys_shattered_dream#c_bv8hpr
Also you can’t change it on your side, a server and the part tou have in your authenticator need to be in sync. There’s no point to change only on your side if the server was not configured to also use the same settings I guess.