Well that's just a split of the old Twitter social media niche. Which was already a weird one: the short length promoted nonsense updates like what someone had for dinner and limited serious insightful content by having to split it in tens of parts, each with its own thread attached. It's no wonder some websites like threadreader exist.

For this reason I never even used Twitter but I did use other social media.

I use Twitter for tech. I don't understand why people would use Mastodon for anything other than tribal political signalling purposes.

The UX of Mastodon is terrible compared to Twitter, in terms of global post search and discoverability of accounts.

And the arbitrary/political natural of fedi-blocking means I'm only seeing a subset of views on Mastodon.

I'm not saying Twitter is perfect, but I think the opposition to it seems contrived and coordinated.

Fair point - just like the old internet with lots of forums then :)

I miss reading John Carmack's .plan file.

Will Threads eat IG?