The German equivalent of The Onion, Der Postillon, made a joke article about Mastodon and I am baffled at how many people seem to think it is real 
@Gustavo6046@mastodon.social@Gargron I mean, people in the Anglosphere are fooled by the English language The Onion all the time! Don't worry about it, it helps to think of it like a sort of bare minimum filter :p