I did the boomer move, trying figure out how to use the fediverse and I made a account for each instance. I realize I didn’t need to do that and made one here. It’s nice to see things like Gardening, enviroment, city subs, etc ANY social media is a constant eye rape of American politics. Not my problem.
I signed up with a few likely places. Avoiding the toxicity of US politics is an advantage though there are specialized little places like startrek.website or programming.dev that are very topic focused.
More general north american social media sites can’t help it. There are some very reasonable people saying reasonable things but they are in an environment where they feel compelled to defend themselves constantly which gets tiring.
Rapid growth places stresses on larger instances. I would be concerned they might run out of money or burn out their admins. As long as we can keep @lodion supplied with coffee this instance looks like it might be sustainable.