I agree with some of that kvetching, and no doubt ActivityPub and the FV still have much to achieve, but I still feel good about the overall model of the FV, and that I'm not being monetized nor exploited as with F------k, R----t, T-----r, and other social media platforms.
Indeed, there's a fundamental truth about us naked apes that consistently leads us down one slipshod path after another, and that has to do with our chronic discomfort upon uncertainty, and our aching need for surety across all things possible. Unfortunately (or fortunately as it were), reality tends to be a little more complicated than merely meeting our existential needs in such ways. Still, I can understand the sentiment, haha.
Or as an inciteful American once said: "Number One, I order you to take a Number Two!"
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