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 I get really tired of people complaining Mastodon isn't a perfectly sanded corporate product like... no? Do you not remember typing the words "RT:" into twitter before linking to someone else's tweet?