Honestly, I couldn't care less if some politicians aren't on the FediVerse.

"Oh, you used to lead a country? That's cute."

Y'know, the person who wrote the protocol which begat the world's largest computer network until the mid 1990s is on here.

The person who wrote the reference DNS server is on here too!

Last I checked DNS is queried around a billion times an hour by more or less every computer on the Internet.

That isn't all those people did either.

But it would get like, kind of crazy to name all their individual technical achievements without name dropping them.

As it is, if you know, you know.

Their follower counts?

Let's just say the individual who was employee #2 at Phoenix, that company that reverse engineered the IBMPC BIOS which facilitated "clone" PCs (IIRC Hewlett Packard came to them with some hardware that they blessed with their ЯƎ-ed BIOS as just one example) has fewer than 1000 followers.

That individual who also helped implement DHCP? So you don't need to sit there tweaking your IP and netmask and gateway and DNS settings every time you change networks? 1.3K followers.

If you know, you know.

If you care about politicians being on here?

Let me know when ANY politician has ever contributed to anything as widespread as those two who are already here, and presumably will continue to keep toiling in the shadows, doing neat things, releasing code in free and open source manners as they have done, for decades.

No lobbyists needed.

No billionaires bribing anyone for votes.

I don't think the FediVerse's priorities are off.

I think everyone who is so ignorant of who really co-creates technology claiming that the FediVerse/Mastodon should be more like Twitter/BlueSky/whatever the heck is just showing that they have a lot to learn?

We all do!

Good thing ignorance can be conquered!:)