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"Drives engagement". Making people angry at shit is a good way to get clicks, so ragebaiting makes up a large part of produced/posted/upvoted material.
There is no algorithm. Clicks don't do shit on mastodon.
The thing is that love and passion also drive engagement. Tech and news companies could have created algos to push content that makes people happy, but they chose not to. Imagine how different life and the internet would be had they chosen the friendlier option.
This is one of the reasons why I think votes and other such nonsense are a detriment to sites like this. (It's also why I've eliminated them from my Lemmy experience.)