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
Arianity@mtsw i was able do that on the android app when i clicked you profile, then click on following.
I stole a bunch of your follows to bootstrap off of, it was basically the same experience as twitter. It also worked for stealing from people explicitly on different servers like fosstodon. Not sure if i got lucky or something