One of the nicer things about Mastodon in 2024 is that people seem to have given up on it being the Twitter alternative. I don’t mean that they’ve given up (though goddamn, that 2022 drop-off), but I haven’t seen the outpouring of “why aren’t more Brazilians joining!” that I would have gotten a year ago.
For better and for worse, this place has a lot of friction, but it functions best when people acknowledges that the friction exists and try to use it to keep away spammers and general shittiness rather than shouting about how other people are doing it wrong.