Mastodon and Pleroma seem to have just soaked up the worst of the Fediverse. Most of the big Mastodon servers are MASSIVE echo chambers. I didn't check Pleroma

Mastodon and Pleroma seem to have just soaked up the worst of the Fediverse. Most of the big Mastodon servers are MASSIVE echo chambers. I didn't check Pleroma as much, but the ones that I did were the same, but with an "I live in a basement and make white genocide infographics all day long" flavor. I've seen hobby chats that do not actually discuss the hobby they're designed for, because the keyboard warriors moderating the place have decided that their political flavor of the month is more important. It's not a healthy atmosphere for discussion, but it's the dominant one across the platform. And you WILL be aggressively blocked if you do not fit into it. Peertube and Pixelfed have fared so much better, I guess because the SocMed(tm) format is inherently designed around creating a bubble.