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@mpldr @pluralistic The exact same features that keep people away and are driving the mass migration to BlueSky instead of here. This platform has too many restrictions, which makes it more difficult to have meaningful interactions.

For example:

1. The purely sequential timeline means you miss a lot of relevant posts, and it's much harder to keep track of the important conversations.

2. The lack of quotes means you can't link or make references to what others say.

This platform added federation, but unnecessarily removed a lot a features that existed on twitter, instead of improving on them.

Instead of fearing "the algorithm", mastodon should have given the option for users and instances to control the algorithm of their own feed.

Bluesky added the option to "detach" a quote from a post if it turns out it's getting unwanted attention. A simpler, more elegant solution to the (frankly, exaggerated) potential abuse problem, than simply not having quotes at all.

In short, there's less friction there, and here it feels like a pain.