@kissane Anecdotally, I think I dove in here after the CW wars -- or I just wasn't posting the kind of political content which would have dragged me into them (entirely possible, demographically speaking).

Finding people and interests outside of tech has been a continuous challenge. Lists helped a lot since hashtags just aren't used consistently enough to trust them for discoverability, but I had to sit down and spend a week polishing them into something helpful. That's a big lift for a social media app to ask of anyone.

The federated follow experience remains deeply frustrating, even with the muscle memory of opening accounts in Chrome from Tusky to see if the source server profile is worth a follow.

That said, I have to admit -- I find myself sharing content from Mastodon more often than I share from other networks because the people I follow here (like you) are fantastic. But, man, it took *work* to get to that point.