@GrumpyMark it's so funny that people are complaining about the way things work here when all this time i've been bending over backwards to curate my twitter experiecne to specifically avoid all of those kinds of manipulation and spam, never used the "home" feed, blocking every corporation online, block lists of hundreds of thousands of shills and clout chasers, i finally have peace now, not only does mastodon not work this way, the instance i'm on explicitly forbids all of that sort of activity