Gregory's Server@kissane Yeah I think this article is spot on! There's a weird mixture of tech issues that are made harder by social issues (e.g. like counts not federating properly because the devs don't think people should care about them, bad search, no algorithmic feeds, etc) and social issues that are made harder by tech issues (e.g. the giant counter that says "it has been 0 days since a dumb defederation slapfight"). Like I've been here for years and a lot of these things still bite me in the ass.
@kissane I do hope the team can overcome them while, as suggested in the article, implementing solid user safety features. That said the core dev teams of basically all these projects are incredibly small – looking at the contributor graph on Mastodon, it's almost entirely the two people one would expect, and then a ton of drive-bys. More power to em though in all seriousness