Mastodon 5.0: Laying the foundation
blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/5.0-laying-the-foundation/
Replying to @nemeski@mander.xyz
They’re really leaning into the email similarities here, not a fan of moving the sidebar to the other side but I’ll get over it. My biggest wish on the UI front though is for them to add a threaded view for replies like what Bluesky has, navigating long threads on Mastodon can be really taxing just trying to follow reply chains.
Replying to @flamingos@feddit.uk
Mastodon doesn’t even really understand threaded conversations on the backend side. It can’t render and display what it doesn’t understand.
That’s also why there’s so much friction between Mastodon on one side and Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams) and Forte on the other side. All four are based on enclosed, threaded, one-post-many-comments conversations in which all participants in the conversation and everyone who has received the start post always receive all comments (ignores and blocks notwithstanding). Friendica is the only one out of the bunch with no support for FEP-171b “Conversation Containers”.