@BeAware @Mastokarl Sure. It's fine that it's strange to you. I'm just trying to explain why staying on Mastodon is strange for other people, nahmean?

If i may,

People will take an untrustworthy, abusive platform because it makes them laugh. It's where their friends and their idols and their peers are. It presents content that is relevant to them. Very few people are choosing social media based on ideological principles. The ones that do are all here.

I said this place is uninteresting for a lot of people. You said "Yeah, I know there's not *every* interest here,"

But I'm not talking about every interest. I'm talking about common ones. It still feels like there's a very small sports community here, still a very small religious presence here, very little pop culture discussion here. None of those are niche irl.

What good is "choosing what you see or interact with here" when your effective choices are "stuff you don't like, don't quite care about, or a slow trickle of new posts?"

Like, i would like a masto experience free of any mention of FOSS or Linux or Python or SW development or coding of any kind. I don't care at all about those subjects. But that's not feasible. Not without identifying 25+ different words and tags and a lot of false positives getting caught up in my filters. So instead i block a few key terms and commit to scrolling past someone's excited discovery that they can in fact install fizwidget 5.1.3 onto their linux server or whatever.