I think most people just want to follow famous people for celeb stuff and corporations for news etc. Mastodon is not there yet.

Personally, I just want to read tech news like an RSS feed. All my sources I followed on Twitter are not on mastodon. So far it’s a no go for me and most people. I wish it was.

Imo, there was no greater news aggregator than 3rd party Twitter apps. I will miss them very much. A couple of my favorite sources are not on Mastodon (yet?) and the 3rd party apps aren’t up to snuff yet. Hopefully we get there one day.