mtswa 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
you could KINDA do this on mastodon - if you go to someone's home instance then search their profile and then go to their following list then MANUALLY COPY AND PASTE the user name of whoever you want to follow back into the search bar of your home instance and like man thats a lot of work.
there's some stuff on mastodon that's missing that was kinda like "ah well things are just different here" but that's a problem that really just seems like inattention or indifference to the user experience and could've been handled much better.
Jef Poskanzer@mtsw When I was using Pinafore it let you do this, and as people mention other UIs do it too. There's no excuse for the default UI to lack this feature.
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