Because Mastodon and the entire Fediverse is infested with the most rabid sort of users that even Twitter couldn't stomach and has turned a blind eye to this fact? I mean, there's a reason why they keep getting brought up over and over and people continually nope out of signing up over there. They've got a demographic problem, they refuse to acknowledge it, and it's killing growth. Why would any media outlet want to participate knowing that?
Half of Mastodon seems to be an obsession with what's in your trousers or what you prefer to sleep with.
Mastodon does not have an automated feed like Twitter does, so what you see in your feed is people you follow and their boosts. Just don't follow people who are interested in your sex life.
Personally, I don't want to follow people, I want to follow subjects. I want to read Jay Expert's posts on their speciality without their posts on politics and breakfast. Maybe Bluesky feeds will make that possible (in which case Bluesky kills Reddit).
Agreed. Politics on micro logging sites is terrible.
That's why I follow hashtags instead of people on Mastodon. It gives me a very high signal to noise ratio.
I'm the other half, I use mastodon for my vanilla news and X for my trouser and sleep news.
> Why would any media outlet want to participate knowing that?
Presumably for the same reason they find the optics of X acceptable but what do I know.
Pretty sure there's a massive difference in both the breadth and scope of the demographics of X and Mastodon/the Fediverse.
Are the Nazis more or less courteous on X? I'm not sure which distinction you're trying to make here.
If you think everyone on X is a "nazi" then clearly you've got problems. Twitter appeals to a massive audience, whereas alternatives do not. Media outlets will go where the eyeballs are... and that's not to Bluesky, to Mastodon, to the Fediverse... but to Twitter... which is populated by people, not nazis.
> most rabid sort of users
Rabid in what way?
that doesn't look official and doesn't have a verified url. some random person just put up a bot