It's not just mastodon😬that's like the one rule of Fediverse, don't conflate mastodon with Fedi overall. Mastodon is a company that's making changes to their own software and because of the sheer amount of people using it, the other devs of other software have to also add that stuff or be left behind. That's pretty bad.

But, I found Fediverse last year when Reddit boycotts were happening and ended up on Lemmy and then Mastodon. After that, I've pretty much been dabbling with different softwares on other instances just to see all the things.