People complain that #Mastodon doesn’t integrate with non-Mastodon services. But that’s true of Twitter too—no one ever expected Instagram or Reddit inside Twitter.

The difference is Mastodon can do what Twitter never could. It talks to Instagram-like services such as #Pixelfed. It talks to Reddit-like services such as #Piefed. And Mastodon itself isn’t even Instagram-like or Reddit-like.

If that sounds confusing, that’s fair. It just means shifting your mental model of how the social web actually works.