Ok real talk for a second. I like #fedi, I do. But a subset of people on here have a serious case of the smug going on and it's frankly vile as fuck. I'm referring to people who go "This wouldn't have happened if you'd just switched to #linux" when someone has a computer issue. Or people deriding others for being on #blueSky which isn't properly proper centralized(tm) and har har dee har when that social network does something that allows folks on here to feel superior.
Gonna give it straight here: it's people like this that essentially make #fedi, as a whole, come across as a bunch of judgy, spiteful, angry nerds that want to be off in their own little corner hiding from the world and judging everyone who doesn't feel the same way. It's akin to that guy at parties who's seen the light and spends the entire time convincing others to buy a hybrid, or go on a keto diet, or try essential oils and yeerety sneer if you don't intend to smoke whatever they're smoking.
in reply to Florian

I feel like there are essentially two camps here.

One thinks fedi is great and wants to spread the gospell, while the other thinks that fedi is only for the "deserving", and if you aren't sufficiently leftist, sufficiently trans and sufficiently anarchist, it's time to fuck off.

I'm much more sympathetit to camp 1 (though they have a habit of overpromising and underdelivering, especially when it comes to fedi's technical aspects).

in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

@miki Yup. There's also myths that I wish would die already like "it doesn't matter what server you join". Yes it does. If the network as a whole decides the moderators of whatever server you're on are dicks and block that instance you're essentially locked in an echo chamber and you may not even know it, but sure, it doesn't matter at all, and you can always move, only takes a few minutes and all your followers will just migrate right along ... unless they don't, but that wouldn't ever happen /s