and this is why i don't think social media as an inherent concept is good, at all at all at all
mastodon is the nicotine patch for twitter for many people and all twitter was was the pooling of several different types of people together
the internet needs to be segmented again imo, and we need not all try to please every single person together all at once
join a forum for your interests. or a subreddit, or something. your life doesn't need to fit all in a single basket
mastodon would be better if it wasn't federated, imo. we already have themed instances, now if only they didn't all have to coexist in the same network fighting over which rules are the best rules, maybe we wouldn't resent each other so much
i want to be able to post emoji spam and non-described pictures sometimes and not get called out of it because someone digitally across the fediverse globe from me had a panic attack for seeing my posts when that person maybe just didn't have to be shown my post at all in the first place
more close-knit groups, segregated from each other, all with their own little schisms. no need to fight over who's got the remote
i say this having been on mastodon since the april 2017 wave, having founded and maintained a public instance for 4 years. mastodon is flawed and the biggest people running it are often even more flawed