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I think this shows you just fundamentally misunderstood how Mastodon works. (Which, admittedly, is pretty common, since the onboarding is terrible.)

Those rules are all for mastodon.social, which is a specific server running the Mastodon Twitter-Like software. There exist countless other servers with their own sets of rules (one of which may be more to your liking) that you could join. No matter which server you join, you can generally interact (follow, reply, etc) with people on other servers.