With the caveat that this is a huge generality, and isn't meant to paste over the real flaws of the network:
One reason people had such a difficult time finding one another on Mastodon is that we collectively spent the last dozen years or so building our online networks in closed platforms with virtually no backup ways to communicate should those platforms go very, very bad.
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