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Lack of essential features and the toxicity within it servers.
1- I didn't say it had to be a twitter clone. What I said is that some people coming from Twitter that weren't convinced by Mastodon, may be could have find other microblogging more adequate for their needs and usage. Each microblogging platform has its personality and usability, and Mastodon wasn't for them.
The problem is when people are told that there's nothing beyond Mastodon (regarding microblogging) on the fediverse, so they end up running away from the fediverse, after not finding a home on Mastodon.
2- It failed at being less toxic.
Witch hunts over petty arguments, negative reaction to newcomers not knowing how things work, racism that gets minimalised as "not as bad" by big part of the user base.
The fact that it doesn't have quote posting because it "allows for toxic behaviour", when other platforms have it and say toxicity is almost non-existant in using that feature, it's in itself a red flag.