Working with their APIs and their plugins’ APIs is atrocious.

Wordpress is an ancient cursed technology, but hey this is kinda cool

That’s fair. They haven’t been on long but it seems to be the preferred alternative for whatever reason. Also, try searching for “BBC” on mastodon. You will find the news… among other things.

It is certainly that, but also that bluesky feels like home to twitter users. They do the best job of running a twitter clone that feels seamless to join and use. My SO is not techy whatsoever, maybe even what you’d call a “normie” and they are thrilled to be on bluesky having been an avid twitter user. Mastodon unfortunately just doesn’t cater to the same or widest audience.

This appears to be related to kiwi farms? It also has a slur immediately on the page you linked

No but you need a loicense

Should be running IE thru wine :p