@pierce ActivityPub is less than edifying for people who like context-making posts – which is most people. No QTs really stifles engagement with news orgs / journalists. And the worst part is its a simple feature withheld for ideological reasons.

Similarly with no sub-threading, threads are harder to navigate and digest. I don't want to do visual second-takes 50 times in a thread to make sure I've understood which sub-comment is a reply to which comment (it really matters).

The multi-site frustrations are surmountable. But intentional context-stripping is not. Journalist and celebrity activity on fedi may have already reached its peak. I guess we'll just have to be satisfied with "That's not important" as the explanation for how things turned out.