@_elena What I like about the Fediverse is that there are real communities here in a way that there isn't and cannot be on websites where every bit of interaction with other humans, every who and what, is shaped by optimization to maximize some metric, like "engagement" or "ad views". It feels more natural here and more normal, and at the same time, messy, the edges haven't been filed off like they have off like they have off the experience of Consuming a continuous stream of content selected to keep you on a website as much as possible.
Most of the things that absolutely destroy peoples brains on social media sites are *just not a thing here*, which is healthy in a way that is genuinely difficult to explain to people who haven't tried it and don't remember this kind of thing.
Not that we don't still have problems (boy do we still have problems), but here, we can start working on fixing them. while on the corporate social media websites, everything just always gets worse, by design.
