Gregory's Server
Why do you assume only positive usage?
Your quote also applies to the trolling so regularly associated with quotes on Twitter currently.
We say that people are the algorithm on Mastodon. People can push bad agendas. Mastodon has been insulated from that in part due to relatively small numbers of users. As that is growing so does the danger of pile-ons. Things went “viral” long before the algorithms got involved.
I maintain you can do all you mentioned previously without quotes