I hadn't thought about that but you're right that would be amazing.

Eh I've already seen people posting links to Mastadon instances with the same format. Unless "Twitter style social" dies the format will live on.

I think the difference is that Mastodon doesn't make the format one of their defining characteristics. And maybe eventually everyone will eventually see that a longer format post is an option, and that it makes sense for certain content. And Automattic will register macrotweets.com and make it a redirect to wordpress and everything will go full circle.