Yeah, no, getting out of the Fediverse was my best decision, or perhaps second only to getting out of Twitter.

I think the model itself of following people (instead of, e.g. following topics) is basically irredeemable, you either:

a) follow only people with whom you 100% agree, which is very dangerous;

b) follow only people who post cat pictures or anything else as unobjectionable;

c) get a lot of negative emotions from all the nonsense in the feed.

It was the latter for me, I still have nightmares from having to ban the #NixOS tag from my feed, from my entire feed approving of the murder of some random insurance CEO, from the endless "AI is scam" takes, etc., etc...

And I can't really unfollow someone who posts 75% of nonsense if they post 25% of interesting technical stuff. Because then my entire feed is gone. You can /technically/ follow topics on Mastodon, but that doesn't really work as it should.

Besides:

> So in this complete breakdown of the press came in the Fediverse. It became the only reliable source of information I had.

Like, no. Getting news from social media is a dead end, is this not obvious just from looking at people who get their news from Twitter? In the very best case one might follow reliable journalists, but then one should follow the places they work. What's more likely is that the author has found a very comfortable bubble.

I have hope that there can be some actual truth-seeking information aggregation algorithm that can finally replace the very imperfect media system, but so far it's not even close. It's very ironic that "a fascist high on ketamine" has, against all odds, managed to produce Community Notes, which is the best attempt so far, but it's like, a few orders of magnitude off being capable of replacing the so-called "legacy media".