Meh.

I've been around enough to get a grasp of the UX and social experience on Usenet, IRC, fully decentralized networks like Freenet, centralized corporate social networks and the fediverse.

While the later has many virtues, I think it has important flaws such as the emphasis on admin control instead of user control, as well as the pressure on admins and devs to act as gatekeepers.

I got here after Twitter started its political censorship rampage, and it's not that better. The censorship points are certainly not fully overlapping, but the promise of federation itself as the solution doesn't seem to work that well.

Start your own server? Sure, but unless you want the server to be an isle, you have to apply a lot of restrictions to who you federate with.