@TechConnectify @wonkothesane Alright, ramble warning. TL;DR you're right and more people on here should be doing something about it.

I honestly think that more people should be lighting a fire under Mastodon for this. There are plenty of improvements that have been proposed to it going back years but a lot of them have been ignored under the "benevolent dictator for life" model, which Mastodon is only now preparing to move on from. It's resulted in it falling far behind and letting Bluesky run laps around it effortlessly. That and there really needs to be more UX people in FOSS.

As for the culture, someone higher up really needs to start taking a harder stance against the constant scolding that some people do. Yelling at someone to content-warn a post under something that the original poster didn't even know was a problem or condescendingly saying that someone should switch to Linux for the apparent crime of using Windows, even for reasons outside of their control (e.g. not everything works under WINE or a VM), is a huge issue that somehow hasn't been addressed.

And, well, there's the everything else about decentralized, federated networks that result in a very awkward experience for those coming from centralized platforms, but Mastodon seems to be working on that so I can at least give them that. Maybe the "it's scraping our posts, white techbro" sect can chill at least a little bit once FASPs get implemented.