I’m honestly very happy with Fediverse platforms like Mastodon and Lemmy.

The ample amount of servers to join I think scares off the worst people on platforms like Twitter and Instagram who only post random bs 99% of the time, and can’t be bothered to take a couple extra minutes at most to understand how Fediverse services are different from traditional social media let alone poke around to find a instance that suits them.

(I don’t mean to sound elitist, but I think all social media would be a lot better if people wanted to have enlightened discussions about things going on in the world, for example, instead of posting heavily edited photos of themselves or dancing in front of a camera. Is this really peak internet?)

What’s left are people that genuinely care about the mission of Fediverse platforms (like how lack of a profit incentive means there isn’t an incentive structure that leads to the enshitification of platforms), or at the very least took the time to understand how it works.

I wish someone would create a front end that combined both Lemmy and Mastodon. That and PeerTube.

I think if we create a system that works better than other corporate sites, is all inclusive of everything you would want to do on social media, and provides those services while giving control to the users/hostsers, it would be hugely popular.