it is normal for the temperature to be above the historical average, yes.

why?

Would prefer to keep porn entirely separate from casual discussions. there really is not a big overlap between people looking to discuss current events and coomers looking for jerk off material. The one thing I always hated about reddit is how the porn was mixed in with casual discussion posts. You don’t need porn.

I don’t want to run servers to participate in social media.

Mastodon is ass. Instead of having social media corporations deciding what you can say, it’s some random neckbeard who threw together a server. And your account does not transfer if the admin decides he doesn’t like you. Hissy fits over defederation are already tearing apart a lot of good instances. Half of mastodon is just circlejerking about how much better it is than twitter anyways.