I unsubscribed from the Fediverse community because I just couldn’t take the constant hate and complaining. Now I’m seeing it in all of the general technology communities. I get that a lot of people have major issues with Meta and Threads, but I’m seriously tired of it taking over my feed. Personally, I enjoy Threads. I also use Mastodon, but the reality is there’s a lot of groups of people who aren’t on Mastodon, and Threads has given me a way to follow them again. That’s something I’m grateful for.
Yeah, we wouldn’t be basically using alpha version of social media if what we wanted was a polished corporate run version with an enormous user base. We are running away from that for a reason and trying to grow communities here. If that weren’t the case we’d never have left reddit which has the advantage when it comes to size and activity for niche communities.