The fediverse is mostly a great way to get extra politics in case you’re too happy with the state of the world. Blare tons of mostly negative shit at people, even if wrapped in a “super funny” “meme”, and the site is going to get negative. Outside of the politics and moronic drama, this place is still more chill - geeky, which colors discourse for better and worse, but at least less rabid than Reddit. When did Reddit have it’s biggest increase in toxicity? 2015-2016, coincidentally right when the yanks jumped the shark.

My major issue is there’s no escape from politics apart from leaving the platform, which… people then do. And that is really fucking stupid for a place allegedly trying to grow and gain users: people could just keep it in their pants (i.e. post in appropriate communities, same as everyone else), but actively refuse to. Apparently “everything is political” so that makes spam nice and considerate - basically doing us all a favor, really.

Sure, you can spend time pruning the overtly/covertly political communities and likely bad faith or just hilariously singleminded actors. After someone makes four new instances and 12 new political communities - each - on them, to fit all the users we don’t have, you get to do it again! I’d love to be able to do the subbed-only thing, but finding communities is somehow even more awkward than blocking it out.

I can’t tell if people failed to understand the whole federation thing, if I’m misunderstanding the finer details, or if they’re literally trying to sabotage the whole thing (… again), but the trend kind of sucks.