Both the twitter and #mastodon web interfaces have a minor #glitch: if post is only an #image, nothing clickable takes you to the next level of interaction of the post: only the image, or the posting account. Even if viewed in the tooter's timeline there is still no equivalent of just being able to click on some plain text to expand. This could be simply fixed with a link in the [...] menu #mastobugs

OK - just found that if you zoom the image there's a link "expand this post". But still an extra step.