A friend of mine posted about algorithms and how they feed garbage to users of certain social media sites. Here's my response:

I see people who have left Twitter join Mastodon, then they do one or two posts, don’t follow anyone, and then give up. Like, hey, sorry pal… this is work. You gotta put in some effort to find people to follow, and to actually engage. You are not just a consumer anymore, you are a participant. So get going! Do something or nothing will happen.

@rasterweb I have very little faith in Mastodon, every basic feature request is promptly dismissed with "but twitter has it, so it's bad!" (full text search, algorithmic newsfeed, quote tweets..), plus all the defederation drama.
As soon as bluesky gets out of beta, I'm most likely moving there.