>>36593997because muh decentralization and muh YOU ARE YOUR OWN BUBBLE.
People can follow you but good fucking luck growing, each node is basically a walled garden mechanically hard to make interact with another node.
Mastodon will never work outside a niche userbase, if it grows in popularity it will just end up like twitter though, centralized and taking advertisers money nulling the entire original point of the platform.
We are going back to Facebook and thats it