Took me like two days to get verified. Matapacos.dog doesn't federate with kolektiva.social, so you can't interact with folk from there which is kind of annoying, but you could migrate there (sans followers from kolektiva.social) if you use a go between instance.

They seem to not like MLs too much, plus there was a thing with the feds raiding them a few years ago and getting their hands on all their users' unsecured data.

Yeah, that plus them having been raided by the feds and handed over unsecured user data in the past makes me very wary.

Back before the election I kept seeing liberals on Reddit and elsewhere say shit like "everyone I know is better off than they've ever been before, Biden's economy is great!", meanwhile my friends are all either homeless or barely housed and dirt fucking poor.