@interfluidity @b0rk I found this to be particularly important:
"A lot of people are on smaller servers, so when they’re participating in a conversation, they can’t see all the replies to the post.

This means that replies can get pretty repetitive because people literally cannot see each other’s replies. This is especially annoying for posts that are popular or controversial, because the person who made the post has to keep reading similar replies over and over again by people who think they’re making the point for the first time.

To get around this (as a reader), you can click “open link to post” or something in your Mastodon client, which will open up the page on the poster’s server where you can read all of the replies. It’s pretty annoying though."