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Twitter was the catalyst for some big progressive social movements. I think the ruling class got its money worth out of hamstringing them.
They shouldn't have. Organizers should have just picked up and moved to Mastodon, but of the few of them that I saw scout it, all but one left after a few days because they were totally unwilling to learn new tools.
"We don't have the time for that," they'd said.
They then turned around and turned to Twitter, where they are effectively shadow banned.
You are right, but mastodon is just a bad experience for a lot of users. Come to think of it, this place has none of the strange vibes mastodon has.
Mastodon had a relatively large and active group of users who were there for a certain set of reasons, and those reasons included being hidden away from other people.
They didn't take well to the influx of difference. But then, that influx outnumbered them 4:1 and could have just ignored them.
Here, though, the influx outnumbered the existing user base by several thousand to one, and no thought has been given to whether anyone should care about lemmygrad. They can, and will, continue to do their own thing.