mastodon is kind of annoying as I’m pretty sure the explore page shows the most active posts from all federated instances no matter what instance you’re actually on, so you’re always going to see lib shit. you have to look at the instance’s Live Feed to find new local posts, and it’s only sorted by most recent so it’s only minimally useful if you’re lucky

I’d bemoan the lack of a good M-L instance but we actually have one at toots.matacapos.dog and it’s super dead as far as I can tell

myself, I just use the FOSS/Linux mastodon to follow some people from that part of the Internet that I like and mostly forget it exists at all