#Mastodon needs to heavily depend on its decentralized nature to stand a chance against advertising-funded social media giants:

1. Content moderation is already ahead creating a dynamic very similar to Reddit.
2. People discovery is kind of solved via referral networks
3. Algorithmic timeline that leans heavier on exploration than virality, to avoid FOMO but to avoid accumulating influence capital too. Perhaps can be influenced by admin? #FederatedMachineLearning has some apllication here.