Yeah, the big challenge with Mastodon is it's basically Twitter as it was like 15 years ago before they added a lot of features that define the modern Twitter experience, like trending/searching on keywords instead of just hashtags (something the leadership has said they do not want to support ever - imho a flag on the toot declaring it scrapeable would be better), an algorithmic feed that considers your follows follows and likes and whatnot to easily-discover interesting people, quote-toots, showing tweetthreads in correct order, and considering whether you've seen a tweet before before showing it over and over as your follows retweet it, muting conversations, etc.
Now obviously a lot of these features are also toxic engagement-maximizers so you don't want to necessarily force them onto users the way Twitter does, but they're also positives in their own ways since they provide content discoverability and legibility.
Twitter 15 years ago was a home of weirdos and journalists mostly. There's a reason it needed changes to take off.
Now obviously a lot of these features are also toxic engagement-maximizers so you don't want to necessarily force them onto users the way Twitter does, but they're also positives in their own ways since they provide content discoverability and legibility.
Twitter 15 years ago was a home of weirdos and journalists mostly. There's a reason it needed changes to take off.