@thomasfuchs "And being able to move servers with a bindle of your faves (and your old greatest hits being preserved by being boosted-a-bunch) is probably how most folks SHOULD be interacting with social media. Humans have always reacted VERY BADLY to being bound to a particular place forever for reasons that basically boil down to terrible luck and cruel/indifferent government"

@thomasfuchs I remember seeing during the initial X-odus all sorts of "Ugh, Mastodon is likeliving in a huge interconnected omni-forum with fueding admins that constantly make it so you lose access to half your friends"

And now that I've been here a bit its like "Mastodon makes it REALLY EASY to move servers and even create your own. You don't actually lose you friends you just go 'I'm here now'. It also pushes you to get over this idea that Every Microblog is Sacred and Must Be Hoarded."

@thomasfuchs Another small bit of the UX problems (and just something to deal with in general for most Open Source stuff) is the different-servers-at-different-builds-that-support-different-things problem.

Pretty much guaranteeing that my after-dark alt on a different server will be able to preview all the Cool New Ish WAY before my most used to seek out friends and cool not-smut server (which is real good at filtering out NSFW stuff and general ragebait-brainrot from the big big servers)