But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up.

It's too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/[email protected] quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more.

https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

I would bet actual money that I've got some nuance of Mastodon's functionality wrong in there so when you see that please do lmk. I thought about asking instance-running friends to preview it but I've taken up enough of their time this week.
@kissane I think you got the tech nuances pretty right on actually. Maybe worth a note there that quote posts, and full text search, and filling in replies that are missing now have pretty much full consensus that they all need to be fixed, and added and are all in some part of the roadmap to add.
@tchambers I thought I'd kind of gestured toward that, but maybe it's on the cutting room floor, there are so many words Tim
@kissane @tchambers You need to learn about sidenotes. Because I liked all those words and wouldn't have minded more of them.
@vivtek does Blot do sidenotes? It didn’t back when I considered using it. 🙁

@hans Is Erin using Blot? Because she does actually have some sidenotes on earlier posts, which I noticed after posting this.

Huh. According to the About, yes she is. And the very previous post has a sidenote, so they must have added it since you evaluated it.

https://erinkissane.com/qualities-of-life

@vivtek nice! And using the simple float method I finally settled on.

(I am an evangelist for sidenotes.)