@ada Agreed. Friendica is the best Fediverse (long-) post service, and for reading threads. Second best is Akkoma, which allows you to have a tree-view of threads, but also which shows you what a "I agree completely!" post is in relation to, as well as highlighting if there are replies to that post, and you then can select to "fold out" the thread, in which case it dashes off to fetch posts dynamically. Akkoma is the best among the short-post services.
Then there is of course Lemmy too, which has a pretty clear thread-with-replies structure. Could do with some touching up of the CSS of the threads to make them even more clear, and the concept of Lemmy is obviously different compared to the short/long-post services in that it sticks to posting a link/topic and the discussion around that.
The absolutely worst is Mastodon. It doesn't show threads at all, so one has to really like that "back" link, because they have to spend a lot of time with it. For every little "I agree!" post you have to dig in all the way to see what it is all about...if it has even bothered to collect all the replies, as the federation in Mastodon only covers instances you know. If you are reading a thread there could be several replies you simply don't see, and you will not get any dynamic updates unless you back all the way out and then go back in again.
Misskey/Calckey look nice. Sadly they have the same issue as Mastodon with not picking up all replies in a thread and the "Content might be missing, you might want to check out this post on the original instance" message on top of every post gets tired pretty quick.
It is a shame Mastodon users seem to think everyone else is using Mastodon, and that it is the GOAT (Greatest Of All Time) of The Fediverse, when it literally is a goat. A big goat, admittedly, but still, big doesn't always mean best.
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