@teotwaki And, not to put too fine a point on it, but when you approach the scale of a 2-million sub YouTube channel - algorithms simply are a must.
Mastodon leadership needs to engage with that fact if they want the platform to be usable for folks like me.
It's still alright for me at the moment, but I think that's purely down to how small Fedi remains at this point. I've got something of a reputation here when across all of YT the vast majority don't know who I am.