Genuine drumming
I’ve got plenty of gripes about Mastodon, but the aspect that makes up for most of them is that it feels very direct. It’s not just that it doesn’t have the various algorithms controlling the feed, but it doesn’t have the people trying to game the various algorithms. I tend not to see much that’s posted for the sake of drumming up engagement. And when that stuff does inevitably make its way into my feed, at least it feels genuine.
There was one such joker in my feed, and it was probably just me, but it did not feel genuine. So I blocked him. Now he’s not in my feed. What’s interesting is that I can still see people reacting and responding to him, and they do act like it’s genuine, at least genuine enough to engage with him.