if they changed "Follow" to "Add Friend with DM", removed the "Favourite" button, and changed "Boost" to "Introduce to Another Friend", that might actually make the Fediverse work as a social medium in the proper sense of "social", because it would force all interactions to be concrete and directed at specific people. you know, like real life works, and there isn't this performer-audience dynamic, but a person-to-person dynamic instead.