There seems to be an inflection point where if you are famous enough, mastodon is terrible.
Ask Will Wheaton or @TechConnectify or any of the other people I've seen face this same bullshit.
If it wasn't an issue, it wouldn't keep happening. Question is; what to do about it. And ironically, talking about fixing it on Mastodon is terrible too. It's almost as if talking about the thing on the thing is like crossing the streams and blowing apart the social contract.