@gray @cassidyclown @bot fediverse would have been a Really Fucking Big Deal 20 years ago. Now, everyone has had their brain rotted by politics to the point where they can no longer chill and be chill. AP is written so you basically never see or talk to people you don't follow, antagonistic communities should be able to exist and not overlap.
Instead we get endless e-drama purity spirals because no one touches nearly enough grass, or has nearly enough sex to just log off for a bit when it is appropriate. It used to just be spergs but now more and more people have degenerated into every more esoteric spergery.
Over there you're liable to tranny-janny spergery. Over here you're gonna get caught up in flavor of the month niche e-celeb cult drama, or the loli question. There's no escape, there is no casual experience, and normies want casual.
I think that's why there's probably more normies on the mastodon side of the wall, because it is casual so long as you aren't getting your nuts kicked into your chest cavity by the tranny gestapo. That happens in few enough numbers, just under-the-radar enough that the nigger cattle tolerate the secret police terrorizing them, for the most part. Or they just go back to Twitter/Instagram et. al. which is also exactly like that, but with more people and better software (inherently increasing the value of the experience).