They want an algorithm.
As much as people mock it, or know it’s the source of why social media optimizes for outrage and other unhealthy behaviors, the algorithm is what they are missing on Mastodon.
As someone who always used third party Twitter apps, and never directly saw the algorithm in my timeline, mastodon feels like Twitter always did.
Prandom_returns@lemm.ee 8 minutes ago
It’s not a place for lurking, IMO. If you’ve got nothing to offer, don’t expect to get engagement on shitposts and rage-bait.
I personally get more engagement on Mastodon, because I couldn’t please the twitter algorithm. And I have 7 times fewer followers on Masto than I had on twitter.
Organic reach is best reach. Everything else is noise.