for me, the main motivation is I crosspost, and it’s actually a lot of work to figure out what to do with mentions. i look up the person in the other network, replace the mention if i can find it, turn bluesky users display names into hashtags if i can, fall back to just display names on BlueSky. 1/

it’s a lot of work! it discourages mentions, which should IMHO be encouraged. it’d be a huge relief if, both ways, i could just copy post text from one to the other and mentions would do the right thing. /fin