Not OP but I recently started using Mastodon at and it was not for me.
For my use case, it was hard to find people I can trust/verify on the platform. I do not want to read every single toot, and browsing via hashtags isn’t ideal. Even when I search a hashtag it still does not show me the most meaningful toots but latest ones. It lacks (on purpose) an algorithm to surface the most interesting toots given a context. I believe Bluesky may have that!
Lemmy, however, is so much better with upvotes, sorting and search.