Try reading my post again. I wasn’t making a judgement about “a single post” but a trend that lasted months and months.

But look at the Trending view right now (and tomorrow, and the next day, and the day after that). The Mastodon instance with the highest prestige isn’t showing from those “tens of thousands of instances” a wide variety of subject matter discussed in longform, nuanced manner. It’s showing mainly political posts and memes. It depicts the fediverse as pathological a forum as any of the other microblogging platforms, even if the particular politics differ.

Even if some people across instances use the fediverse to discuss other matters, a healthy ecosystem would be one that discourages highly-online stuff, not does the opposite and boosts its visibility.

> Just let people have their space, and find your own.

The whole topic of this subthread was about people leaving X and possibly finding another space. I’m showing why those people might not “find their own” in the fediverse (or at Threads or Bluesky, for that matter) and would be better off avoiding microblogging entirely.