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Remember that Twitter is also giving a platform to neo-Nazis. That's why it's important everyone stop using Twitter and switch to alternatives such as Bluesky and Mastodon.
I wanted to get into Mastodon, but I can see why it didn't take off as much compared to Bluesky. It didn't prepopulate the home feed on first sign up (it was empty), and only gives a small selection of people to follow and you only see their posts. Bluesky does a similar thing, but the home feed uses suggestions based on the people you initially follow to populate the home feed with others as well.
I think mass adoption would be easier for Mastodon to achieve with that kind of algorithmically generated prepopulation.
Also obligatory Fuck X.
I think instead they should suggest some hashtags. I.e. Topics the person is interested in. And the rest could work just as it is now. You would immediately have your home feed populated without doom scrolling topics you don't care about. But really it's more on the app developers to implement.