Yeah the lopsided posting habits of various users makes it hard to see all the posts from people you follow. There's always that one account posting 10 times an hour flooding out your feed.

This combined with not being able to filter out retweets makes Mastodon cumbersome and not very effective for its main purpose...keeping up with posts from specific people.

Say what you will about recommendation algorithms, they do at least prevent this type of thing from ruining your experience.