@djsumdog @suquili @Turkleton @WhiteJihadJaws I remember signing up here almost four years ago, and it being a breath of fresh-air compared to 8chan. It was much more laid-back and open-minded because I was expecting most of the freeze peach side of the Fedi being people ranting about Jews and race-mixing 24/7. Sure there were some of those people there, but it wasn't a complete echo-chamber. I had a bunch of people from various backgrounds, political views, and interests following me.
Now, I'd argue that this place is even worse than most imageboards. At least on an imageboard, if I don't want to talk about politics and current events at the moment, I can easily go on one of the tech or video game boards. Sure, some of the political shit would naturally bleed in, but it wasn't as bad. On the fedi, there is no-escape unless you create a massive blocklist/mutelist. And you can't even make an unpopular opinion anymore without being dogpiled. Also, complete anonymity means that posts are judged by the content and not the user, so you don't have to worry about building positive or negative reputation about yourself.
Maybe my experience on here would've been better if I never talked about politics on here, and instead focused on gamedev, but I signed up during the middle of the George Floyd riots and the biggest medical psyop in the history of the world, I couldn't help it.
If you want something more like the old Fedi, you could try Nostr. The crypto begging has died down somewhat, but it's still a bit of a right-libertarian echo-chamber. Sure, Nostr is technically part of the Fedi thanks to the mostr.pub bridge, but I don't see many of the Poast-types going after the Nostr accounts.
@PurpCat @djsumdog @suquili @Turkleton @WhiteJihadJaws Literally the only good thing to come out of the Twitter buyout was that it exposed how much of a fraud Elon Musk is. Before that, most of the people criticizing Elon Musk were far-leftists and flat-earthers.
@PurpCat @djsumdog @Humpleupagus @suquili @Turkleton @WhiteJihadJaws I'm pretty sure the Twitter buyout and him wanting to turn it into the "everything app" is just a front for digital ID.