Agreed. Technological implementation details aside, the single biggest issue I have with Mastodon as a replacement for the Twitter-shaped hole in my media univ

Agreed. Technological implementation details aside, the single biggest issue I have with Mastodon as a replacement for the Twitter-shaped hole in my media universe, is that it has no extant established functional scalable utilized replacement for the distillation of a single feed, specifically one which has a meticulously crafted "algorithm" aka secrket sauce for comprising posts from sources I have chosen to follow, to universally trending events, with a strong attention to network and correlated interests within it. This is hard work and is indeed a sekret sauce. And despite how abused it was, e.g. to drive engagement-through-enragement, and, as with the pathological death-spiral cases of Facebook and Instagram, how corrupted by paid-for and otherwise placed content, it was effective at constantly exposing me to things RSS does not and AFAIK cannot: things I want to see but don't know to ask for. Whoever cracks this for Mastodon in a fashion that plays well with the established norms around control, is liable to make a small fortune. Much smaller than in a non-federated, centralized universe, that captures a broad audience... ...but a much sparklier fortune.