Not many people had their own website in the late 90s

Your post is pretty nonsensical anyway, but if anything more people had their own websites as a proportion of the web, with Geocities and Angelfire etc. This was before social media, so to have a presence on the web you had to have your own site, and people did.

Sure, it’s counterintuitive, but so is not bracketing things in ternary operations.

This is not stated accurately. The American versions of pizza and carbonara we’re invented in the US, but there were and are original Italian versions.

Voices sounding off are very different to voices calling for execution, possibly encouraging vigelante violence. It’s the latter that goes beyond political ideas and becomes opportunistic demagoguery.

Tags is a cool idea to help users find posts or communities on specific topics.

But taking away the different communities on the same topic is misunderstanding one of the key benefits of the fediverse over Reddit. I might want to talk about horses in a different way, with different people, operating under different rules, to the way others might want to talk about horses. The fediverse allows that, without having RealHorseTalk and RealRealHorseTalk nonsense.

Better UI and categorisation tools, yes. That’ll help make sense of this for new users. But don’t take away an actually positive aspect of the fediverse just to make it look more like Reddit.

This is such a clever part of the protocol. So many different UIs are possible with the same underlying framework and data.

I have this too, made worse in Jerboa where it won’t even remember my filter settings so I have to go to All and New every time to see anything.

Edit: oops, found you could change the defaults in Jerboa settings. Still shouldn’t need to, it should just remember last choice, but at least it’s possible.