I cannot express how much healthier I am since I left Twitter. The very few places of other centralized medias I still frequent here and there, I make sure to read the comments from people less. It is a shitshow what goes on in most peoples minds. The division and hate. Less you see all that the better.
Hive in that regard is much more pleasant place to be right now. I hope we are never overrun by the cesspool that exists out there.
It is getting easier to set up a node so that is something I want to look into this year.
Yup! I saw @thebeedevs run Hive node on a raspberry pie in Kuala Lumpur!
I do worry that Hive could attract nasty people, but then we need tools to deal with that. We don't want to compromise on freedom. I've met so many nice people here.
I never really got much use from twitter, but the Facebook algorithm is definitely designed to irritate me for engagement metrics. I remember when it was just a handy way to connect with family. Now it feeds me ads and garbage content. I go in cycles of "hey, I should check such-and-such," remembering why I hate the platform, and abandoning it for a couple weeks until something brings me back. One of these days, I'll just realize I never returned there. Hopefully.