I really love that the fediverse cannot "go down" or "have an outage". Sure, an instance can go down, but there's literally tens of thousands of instances. This instance alone is networked with over 13,000 other instances. I love that for us.
Most people I know on here have backup accounts on other instances and a lot of people link them on their profile, so you can easily just follow both in the event of their instance shutting down. I think that's cool, because it means we're decentralized and it's so hard to take us down entirely. It makes sense why you see so many people complaining about mastodon and the fediverse, because they can't just... buy the fediverse and make it total ad riddled crap like all other social media. We also largely hate AI bots here too, so the content is way more human feeling.
It's not without it's problems. No social media is without it's problems, because humans have large scale social problems that follow them wherever they go and communicate, but comparatively, it's better managed here. For instance, if there's an instance of bad actors, say a bunch of literal neonazis, you can block the entire instance instead of needing to block each individual neonazi that you normally would have to. This sort of thing made twitter a nightmare for me, because I am visibly queer and so sometimes I'd just get raided by large groups and the best I could do was private my account, cutting me off from essentially the entire public, instead of just he group of bad actors.
There's also just the kinds of communities that form here are different. I've learned about so many new free and open source technologies, environmental problems and helpful tips to combat them, people's own music, drawn/painted art, pottery, and fiber arts. It's been so lovely to see people be in community with one another here to create things.
It absolutely takes more work to craft your feeds and find your people here, but it's so much more worth it. I can't see myself going back to traditional corporate run social media. It sounds like a nightmare of AI, ads, and isolation.
