Opened the front page of the "community of the nicest, most interesting people". Here's what I found, omitting some jokes, "dear diary", etc (profanity omitted, light rephrasing to keep it short):
AI is taking our jobs
Trump is a liar
MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet
Trump is bad
AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP
Twitter is dying
Christians are hateful bigots
Republicans are Nazis
Republicans hate women and want them to die
Ayn Rand is stupid and I already realized it as a kid
Hunter Biden is an innocent victim of a vast right wing conspiracy
Elon Musk is evil and stupid
Trump is stupid, while Obama is smart
I didn't search for that on purpose or anything, didn't time it, just opened the first page at the random moment and scrolled for a couple of screens. It's not 100% of content, but what I described is the majority of it. Maybe I got particularly unlucky. But if I haven't, I fail to recognize how it's different from 99% of reddit or anywhere else on the internet? Which is the part I am supposed to be impressed with, where was my nostalgia for the Internet of the olden days supposed to wake up (and yes, I was there, Gandalf)? I'm just not getting it. I mean, I have nothing against people getting together and having one more place out of millions to discuss all the ways Trump is stupid and evil, but I feel like that's not exactly what the description in the article promised me.
I had to scroll through over 24 hours of posts before hitting anything political, an article about abortion in Texas. Definitely not the majority of the content and it took way more scrolling than a couple of screens. I still haven't seen anything else on your list yet.
While that guy obviously has an axe to grind, if you visit the main page of that URL there's plenty of tiresome politics all over the place: https://social.lol/ It seems to be coming from different instances, though. I have no idea how Mastodon chooses what content to show on that page.
Gee. When I just go to https://social.lol I see this as the first thing: "These are posts from across the social web that are gaining traction today. Newer posts with more boosts and favorites are ranked higher."
AI is taking our jobs
Trump is a liar
MAGA republicans are plotting against democracy and Trump is Putin's puppet
Trump is bad
AOC is cool, she's showing that evil GOP
Twitter is dying
Christians are hateful bigots
Republicans are Nazis
Republicans hate women and want them to die
Ayn Rand is stupid and I already realized it as a kid
Hunter Biden is an innocent victim of a vast right wing conspiracy
Elon Musk is evil and stupid
Trump is stupid, while Obama is smart
I didn't search for that on purpose or anything, didn't time it, just opened the first page at the random moment and scrolled for a couple of screens. It's not 100% of content, but what I described is the majority of it. Maybe I got particularly unlucky. But if I haven't, I fail to recognize how it's different from 99% of reddit or anywhere else on the internet? Which is the part I am supposed to be impressed with, where was my nostalgia for the Internet of the olden days supposed to wake up (and yes, I was there, Gandalf)? I'm just not getting it. I mean, I have nothing against people getting together and having one more place out of millions to discuss all the ways Trump is stupid and evil, but I feel like that's not exactly what the description in the article promised me.