I joined the fediverse in 2018 (plus or menus) and I've seen all the changes that happened through the years.
At the very beginning it was only a nerd niche of early adopters, while nowadays more and more people are quitting Twitter to join a Mastondon instance.
People are using it like Twitter and at the same time claiming it is too similar to Twitter.
Technology can help, but the real problem is how people are using it.