fedi is pretty great but you tread the line between stumbling into a software that's a slog to use and a software that's used by people who *really* want to make sure your entire fedi experience is talking about said software

sharkey's pretty great for user expression though, funny markdown settings give you a lot of things to play around with in formatting and it supports a whole bunch of post media types like being able to embed flashes via ruffle (* with the caveat that your browser may not play nicely with embedded ruffle instances, fairly enough). not to mention actually having a tolerable UI with some decent settings for user well-being and thereabouts (*grumbling vaguely at mastodon*)

as a community though. fedi's a mixed bag - we're set up on transfem.social as an instance and it's been . fairly resilient over time but ymmv

very diverse at least, but there's also a fair share of bad faith actors scattered across the network who end up stirring a lot of the same shit that's worked elsewhere and so every once in a while you get to see everyone groan a collective sigh of "oh my god not this shit again" when someone tries getting momentum to cut off a primarily transfem instance, or someone really wants to make their personal beef everyone else's problem and back it up in insincere language

the actual Posting is ballin though