> I got into Twitter six months ago for work and it took me a lot of time and patience and looking around to grok.

As I already said, the problem isn't that I don't "grok" Mastodon: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33429036

It didn't take me that long to grok Twitter.

> It reads as the dismissal of someone who doesn't like new things and just wished it was like their old thing.

I've used many different social networks over the years: Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, IRC, App Dot Net (I paid for ADN!), Micro.blog, now Mastodon, and others I can't remember the names of anymore. I even used dial-up BBSes back in the day! I think I'm reasonably experienced and can make an educated evaluation of a new one.