The relief when I open up Lemmy or Mastodon. It feels like coming home to an experience I didn’t realise I was missing. Lemmy has grown enough now that I can look at my feed throughout the day and there will be interesting posts, all with engaging comments and conversations. It’s like the internet I grew up on, only better: it’s ran by the people, for the people.
Obviously, that doesn’t mean the fedi isn’t plagued with issues. But it feels fundamentally more culturally healthy than whatever the fuck is going on in big corpo social media.
To be fair the architecture of this place is designed to mitigate centralization and subsequent censorship under centralized networks which is unfortunately inherently political right now, this place is not immune to manipulation but also looking up at the corporate social media world and seeing how much of a problematic dumpsterfire it is underscores why these things are so important and why the Fediverse can be a good vector for politics news.
I agree though, I want more stuff and more diversity of topics and people!
When someone is banned from an instance, the instance do not give them the opportunity to transfer their communities they created and have to restart from zero and those communities become modless. Right now even the promise of anti censorship and portability is not there
It is still definitely deeply flawed, I am not debating that.