Yeah, I would say that features of the software can definitely affect the community but there's a limit. If you actually have Mastodon grow to include any sign

Yeah, I would say that features of the software can definitely affect the community but there's a limit. If you actually have Mastodon grow to include any significant portion of Twitter's userbase then you're going to get much of those same behaviors. Like, on the "dunking" example: people will just use screenshots. Memorably, Twitter didn't have even retweets well into its life, but the users created a de facto system for doing it. This "pave the cowpaths" feature growth was once a defining aspect of Twitter. Many of the people who like Twitter like to dunk, they like to read dunks, and they'll do it wherever they go.