mastodon is like email insofar as if all of Google was a gender studies major that blocked all of Yahoo for trimming their toenails in the students common area and warned everyone against Hotmail for being a libertarian and filtered it such that only a few emails made it there from them
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the analogy is wonky because i'm not clever but you get the gist of it
it works very well for a very select few people and you will be yelled very loudly at if it doesn't work for you
mastodon put community moderation power in the hands of many people who are not ready for such power and we have been paying the price for it since the 2017 influxes