Yep lol. This is tinfoil hat shit. Meta is evil but they’re using ActivityPub now, deal with it. People wanted the protocol to be popular, and now it is. You got what you wished for!
Yep. Finding new users and Content on mastodon is impossible because the nerds who run it hate THE ALGORITHM and social media addiction. Same reason they held out on basic features like quote tweeting until recently.
Bluesky is basically just OG twitter, plus you can make your own algorithm feeds. It’s cool.