it's hard to explain how the fediverse works correctly because it fundamentally doesn't make sense. incorrect assumptions everywhere. design dna imported uncritically from centralized siloed platforms will inevitably lead to a bad ux when applied to decentralized systems. somehow, things were less contradictory back in the gnu social and ostatus days -- a feed is a feed. current fedi seems to be very keen on obscuring the base reality on which it operates, just like the silos they emulate.