I fail to understand why there are people with sufficient technical acume to be on Mastodon who never discovered things like Tweak New Twitter: browser add-ons that essentally make Twitter pretty much like Mastodon in terms of user experience, Add in ublock origin or something similar, along with the steve black blacklist, & you get:

* no ads
* only see people you follow
* no trending
* no algorithm
* retweets from people you follow in a separate tab

Oh right. You're on your phones. OK then.