Mastodon feels for me just like a bunch of feuds, each with it's mini dictators.

I just use Nostr. No account required, no telefone number, no mail, and you moderate what you see, no one else. And you don't see any feud, it's all the universe together.

Other advantage is that your account is cannot be deleted by anyone or any government or any server.

Other advantage is that if a server blocks you, your messages passes automatically thru many other servers Without you even having to care. So it's censorship resilient.

And nostr can read and post into Mastodon.

Try the web clients: iris.to, snort.social, nostraco.in

If you use the client nostrudel.ninja you get a NOSTR+mastodon+nitter (twitter open source reading platform) in one app

In Android try Amethyst

In iOS, try Damus

#grownostr