Mandatory yearly contacts incoming.

I agree. For now, as I find everything to be a bit too big, I put the zoom at 90% in my browser.

Some kind of Ponzeye scheme?

I don’t know about that. I use Mastodon almost exactly like I was using Twitter.

I’m on a smallish instance (around 2K accounts), and I don’t have trouble finding interesting stuff.

Mastodon definitely isn’t built or designed for one-in-one conversations.

It’s a microblogging platform for diffusing content, opinions or anything else people want to use it for, somewhat like Twitter, with some variations.

I don’t really use it, but I noticed that they just launched a new version. https://wts2.wt.social

if people start getting banned for the wrong reasons

What would be good or bad reasons?

How does requiring a minimum account age cause group think?