All true, but they couldn’t use that cop-out if Mastodon had not spent years not building things that many, including me, said it would need to ever go mainstream. It’s not that it’s hard. It’s that it’s awkward in too many important areas that users now expect, and have still not been improved. Only promised. And users typically tire of unfulfilled promises.
From: @sellitman
https://mastodon.social/@sellitman/110656439957005308
@shoq @sellitman The hard part, it is social media like being in a hundred room mansion full of people and have a conversation in a closet with a few of them, hard to track the big picture. The good news is that everyone is in the same boat, but connected. Just live on it and maybe you’ll hear it all, but won’t remember but a fraction of it. I resist that (living on it), but make appearances. 🙃 A forum structure is more organized, but not as dynamic.
@shoq @sellitman Agreed, so you have to wade though it, or miss most of it, but if there is an advantage, it is chance discovery. 😛
@Huntn00 @sellitman I have argued for years that groups, threads and forums should and would be the core of the fediverse. The entire streaming id model the world is addicted to was always stupid. Like your analogy, mine is “who goes to a party expecting to have to listen to everything every guest has to say?” It was invented by engineers. It was always absurd.