a lot written about its lack of quote-tweets but a big feature that mastodon missed that bluesky already has is "i can easily click on someone's profile and quickly follow a bunch of people they are following" which is really vital for this initial network building
Just because it is possible does not mean it is a good idea. You may end up following people that have divergent subject matter interests from your own, and your timeline can get clogged up.
There are a lot of Venn diagrams.