Now that I’ve seen others say what I’ve been thinking…if you’re on iOS and feel like Mastodon isn’t really clicking, try a different app. Metatext didn’t turn it into something it isn’t, but did tip a familiarity scale for me.
@gnomeloaf I agree - much more enjoyable experience with Metatext (especially once I learned you could change "Toot" to "Post" in settings).