> Influencers don't bother because it doesn't have the massive following and reach other platforms have

Mastodon doesn't have an "algorithm" (in the online recommendation sense).

Every post is sorted by post date, which biases against virality.

Influencers don't go on mastodon because they can't "go viral". They can't spew dramaslop or whatever other psychological trickery to gain a greater reach.

Mastodon isn't built for influencers, it's built against them.

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It's also not growth-hacking to a reach critical mass usage before rug-pulling its users into a pit of every expanding service enshitification.

That's what makes it feel so much more authentic compared to other social networks.

It's the social media network from a parallel universe where the non-profit Wikipedia/Wikimedia purchased Twitter and Discord, merged them together then got rid of the mic rooms.