I always had the impression that the fedi was a dead thing for ages, simply because there wasn't anyone in the shitposter sphere using it for the most part (it came off as another "shit someone shills but never uses" platform like Tox, the earlier days of Matrix, and sometimes XMPP/IRC post Discord), and the people in the lefty sphere never gave two shits about it. Even now the only lefties who use it are ones with enough serious Musk Derangement Syndrome to actually quit using Twitter (most won't).

And then on Mastodon it's not just being a woke mouthpiece it's boring "Hi I do this and that" sterility since if you're genuine you get banned or defedded or lose followers and social media whores crave numbers.