This sub-network seems to have a lot of overlap with the set of people who use their Twitter handle as a substitute for an email address—i.e. the people who want you to tweet at them if you want to collaborate with them on something. Which itself is vaguely overlapping the set of people who are "famous", but not celebrities—i.e. people who are well-known names in their own industries or hobbies.
Mastodon seems fixated on emulating Twitter without questioning if there's anything worth keeping.
It’s really easy to bet that something is impossible. It sounds smart, because all of history confirms your theory.
But history is also chock full of people doing things that didn’t seem possible, so personally I think you’re making a very bad bet.
And I wonder why you are even doing it? What’s gained by trying to convince people that there are zero viable interventions in a specific corner of the solution space? Especially such a big corner as “all technical interventions”?
People are on Twitter for the inane arguing, same as the people in the comment sections of political sites.
Then Gamergate happened and people started yelling about it, and then that grew into the alt-right and that got more yelling, and then Trump got elected and it’s just been so much yelling.
And now here I am mostly on Mastodon, where there’s next to no celebrities, brands, or other things to yell at, and it’s pretty nice.