Ron Gilbert (GrumpyGamer)I hate that you can't link to a Mastodon post without it taking you a different server. It's nuts that those links aren't swizzed on the sever. Always taking me to a different server that I'm not logged into is the Achilles heal of Mastodon. Non-tech users are completely confused by this. It's not their fault, it's Mastodon's fault. I know it's not easy to fix, but if Mastodon wanted to fix one thing keep new users, this is it.
Trinsec@grumpygamer
An easy solution is to be able to quote posts, but for some reason Mastodon devs don't really like it. While almost any non-Mastodon server can do it and some Mastodon flavors can do it too.
The Mastodon devs deem this feature 'toxic', and yes it can be used in a negative way. But just linking to a post is even more toxic because you don't know if it's linked to a post you had muted/blocked. If it's quoted, at least the server can hide the contents if you've blocked the user of the quoted post.
Oh well, I haven't been using Mastodon for over a year now, and I'm not longing back because of dumb decisions like this.