Is it just me or does Mastodon... suck?

I recently joined Mastodon, via ~insom's lovely little instance. I haven't been using it very extensively, I mostly just wanted to follow some of the cool people I met at town con, but I'm having a really hard time with its interaction model.

Like, the twitter-alike thing is great for sharing little tiny thoughts, but absolutely terrible for longer writing. As an example, in my feed, I'll be presented a thread like this:

(3/3) Good Luck Figuring out what I'm talking about without the context.

(2/3) So why am I given this to read first?

(1/3) This is the first post in the thread.

I don't read in that order, so I either have to click the post to get it's context, or scroll down, then read upwards. Why can't the thread just be presented in the order it was written, to make sense?

I'm also not a huge fan of time-based feeds in general; they hide posts from infrequent posters under a deluge from people who post often, but that's not a mastodon-specific issue.