I just read a message where a user called #Mastodon "soulless". In over a month they :

* had #followed under 10 people

* Had roughly 10 posts with no #hashtags

* When responding to others, had only every responded to a mini-celebrity

..so yea, their experience probably sucks

I used to try and help explain how to "get going" here to folks, but at some point you gotta try to help yourself a bit

A lot of times (not always) in the #fediverse you will get the #socialmedia experience ya ask for