@BeAware You’re right, I’m new here, and still learning—I should refer to the network as a whole as the Fediverse, rather than Mastodon, correct?
And yes, Threads has an algorithm built in. You’re at the mercy of that, which is concerning. Like Instagram, you can build an audience, and then suddenly you’re invisible because Meta has changed something that prevents your account from being seen, even by your followers, because they want you to pay for ads to be seen. Not cool.