A lot of people get annoyed by #Mastodon because of its lack of features.
I get annoyed because alternative #Fediverse software gets shafted when it comes to apps and other services.
Sure, these alternatives can integrate the Mastodon #API but that means, if they have more features than Mastodon, they will get bottlenecked when it comes down to the Mastodon apps.
Take #Iceshrimp, a fork of #Firefish in the #Misskey lineage, it (like the other Misskey forks) has a lot more bells and whistles than Mastodon, such as the Drive (for better attachment and file use) and MfM (Misskey-flavoured #Markdown).
If I want to take advantage of any of that, I either have to go to the PWA of my instance, which is not the best on mobile, or find one of the few native Misskey apps on #iOS.
I would much rather not Mastodon have a monopoly on the Fediverse but hey, it already seems to considering all the fucking articles by the major online news sources not even blinking at the mention or focus of alternatives, bar Meta Threads and Wordpress.
It is turning into or already has turned into centralisation by proxy due to the one single lead in a sea of creativity and untapped potential.
We are all in this together, we need to build better infrastructure for other software.
#Pixelfed, as a photo-based social platform, isn't affected by this issue. This goes for any of the other types of software besides #Microblogging.
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