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Algorithms are required either way. You know what will happen when Mastodon dominates and no solution is brought up for transparent algorithms?
There will be secondary accounts "pre-posting" to harvest engagement data and then schedule posts at perfect times in their main accounts. Of course only few will be able to do that, and it would blast the platform into Facebook.
Because too active accounts have to be muted, accounts posting only sometimes very useful information will get buried.
The simplest of algorithms to prevent post floods are absolutely required.