I'm just going to say it. I fucking hate the Fediverse now.
When I first joined, I actually thought it was going to be different. I came here because I was sick of Twitter and the bullshit that came with it. I wanted somewhere smaller where I could meet people, post whatever was on my mind, and just exist without constantly worrying about some stupid drama.
For a while, I actually liked it.
Then the drama started.
And it just never fucking stopped.
Everywhere I went there was another argument, another callout, another blocklist, another person fighting with an admin, another server fighting with another server. Somehow everything becomes a huge fucking deal.
I've also had my own problems with admins and moderation. There have been times where I genuinely felt like I couldn't even speak without someone getting pissed off about it. I'd say something, and suddenly I'm being accused of harassment or misinformation or whatever the fuck they decided to call it that day.
That's honestly what made me start getting sick of the whole thing.
I kept moving servers thinking maybe I'd find somewhere better. Then I'd get comfortable and something else would happen. So I'd move again. And again. At some point I realized I was spending more time trying to find a place where I wasn't going to have problems than actually enjoying social media.
What's the point?
I didn't join the Fediverse to spend my entire day dealing with Fediverse drama.
That's also why I started using Bluesky.
I'm not going to sit here and pretend Bluesky is perfect because it isn't. I'm sure I'll have problems there too. Every social network has problems.
But I wanted a fresh start.
I wanted somewhere where I could just fucking post.
I don't want to wake up and check my notifications just to find another argument I somehow got dragged into. I don't want to constantly worry about what an admin thinks of something I said. I don't want to keep making accounts because I'm trying to escape whatever bullshit is happening on the last server I joined.
I'm just tired.
That's really all I can say.
The Fediverse had some good people. I met people I genuinely liked and I'm thankful for some of those connections. I'm not going to pretend everything about it was horrible.
But personally, I've reached the point where the bad outweighs the good.
I joined the Fediverse because I wanted to get away from Twitter.
Somehow I ended up finding Twitter again, just with different servers and a different name.
So yeah.
The Fediverse is basically the new shit-universe of Twitter to me.
And I'm fucking done with it.