And the interface is not trying to assault me. It loads quick.
...Seems like a better product than Twitter for a public feed.
I prefer Twitter in the sense that it's more laissez faire in terms of what kinds of speech get you banned.
This is why P2P is superior. Federation nodes can be used to strong-arm collective behavior against the will of individual users.
I don't mind being exposed to liberal and conservative thought. I want to consume almost the entire spectrum of human discourse so that I can synthesize ideas for myself and understand more effectively. As long as the signal is reasonably high.
Reddit and fediverse moderators wield absolute power over their fiefdoms. They're intellectual dictatorships. (Not to mention egotistical behaviors some of them have.)
P2P allows the end user to consume what they want, weight discussions how they want, and participate in any number of emergent clusters. It's the real path forward.
...said no one who's ever been a moderator.
You find out quickly that there are some perfectly horrid people out there. You absolutely do not want to hear everything that people say. It seems like you would, but you really don't.