Mastodon's "conversation model" is rubbish; CW: long (over 2,700 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, making Mastodon look bad in comparison to other Fediverse projects
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Seriously, Mastodon's conversation model (or lack thereof) is so inconvenient it's nerve-grating.
On Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and others, you automatically receive all comments to any post that you've received. That is, unless filters or blocks stand in the way. Sometimes, even older comments are backfilled when a post with comments is imported.
The whole Threadiverse immediately exposes you to whole threads because you don't receive individual posts or comments anyway. That wouldn't be how Reddit works, and the Threadiverse is modelled after Reddit.
On Mastodon, you only receive posts a) that mention you or b) by people whom you follow. Even if they're replies to a post that you've already received.
When I reply to a pure Friendica/Hubzilla/(streams) thread, I can be sure that everyone receives my comment.
When I reply to a pure Mastodon thread, I basically have to explain everything to almost everyone separately. I have to explain it at least once in each branch of the thread. Alternatively, I have to mention everyone who has participated in the thread at once. And then another Mastodon user discovers the start post, but of course doesn't see the thread, and I have to reply to them individually because they didn't see my comment(s).
For example, if there's another long thread full of Mastodon users acting as if the Fediverse is only Mastodon, I join in and try to explain to as many people as possible that, no, the Fediverse is not only Mastodon, and what you want "Mastodon and the Fediverse" to have is readily available on lots of non-Mastodon projects. And I have to do so six times over due to how branched the thread is just to catch everyone.
Next morning, I come back to the thread and find another five people who have replied to the start post, and who act like the Fediverse is only Mastodon because they haven't seen a single one of my half-dozen replies. So I have to explain it another five times.
Of course, not few of those whom I've replied to will block me for reply-guying me because I've answered to them although they haven't mentioned me, and I'm none of their followers, much less a mutual.
So much about Mastodon allegedly being the biggest because it's objectively the best.
Oh, and before you complain about how "they" had the audacity to do things differently from Mastodon: Both Friendica and Hubzilla are older than Mastodon, Hubzilla by ten months, Friendica by almost six years. Their conversation model was here first.
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