“Please don't be the person who explains to me the technical reasons for why #Mastodon currently works the way it does. That's not the point. Certain technical decisions were made, and these #usability and #abuse problems are the result. Those technical decisions should be revisited.”
‘Mastodon’s Mastodon’ts’ by nostr:npub1eyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qce6x02: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2023/08/mastodons-mastodonts/
nostr:npub1vnjkz5dwlczf8ml8stde806ukkuwthjcwdgpkcc24jk2w4yj52aqj8w8vc nostr:npub1eyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qce6x02 Good critique.
One solution is single sign on. The Fediverse maintains a single authoritative authentication database which is replicated out, like Kerberos or OAuth. This solves the broken URL issue, and from that you could fix the broken message polling across servers and the broken block behavior.
Also: HubZilla and Zot does everything you want. It works a thousand times better than Mastodon and ActivityPub. But it doesn't have the users and it's user interface is horrific.