aevai love that thing that mastodon has where i don't see the hot take a bunch of people i follow are mad at, because there isn't anything artificially drawing attention to rage bait to get us to look at ads or inflate stock prices or astroturf political campaigns or growth hacking or whatever other reasons for corporate engagement farming
numanumayeynot sure about trending tab, which most people see when browsing without an account.
(@Gargron is it the same trending feed for everyone, or does it apply analytics to change it for specific viewers?)
but as a user specifically, i can confirm that otherwise, mastodon doesn't deliberately shove stuff in my face unless i want it there.
unlike every other social media platform.
it also allows you to manually approve followers too.