A reminder that Twitter was not made as you see it today. At the start it was literally an SMS frontend. It didn't have concepts like threads, DMs, groups, privacy (ha!), blocking, muting or any of that crap. ALL THAT GREW ORGANICALLY - at first just as conventions, later adopted.

We will figure out how to use Mastodon. And some of those ways will be adopted officially (whatever that means!). This is our place. We'll shape it. Give it time.

@TomF For those not in the know, this is where the OG 140 character limit came from. SMS limit is 160 - 15 for username to this day and the rest for the tweet body and formatting/metadata.

tbh the history makes current events so much more bitter.