I am not interested in being active. I made an account with no follows and I can tell the site is just Liberal version of Twitter. Just as much of a toxic echo chamber
Fair enough, I can definitely see what you mean, and I respect your opinion.
At least, to my experience, you aren't forcefully fed by the "algorithm" with posts from random people posting ragebaits and/or quotedunks, who also happen to have bought their verified checkmarks, having their own posts prioritised over actually good ones, and most importantly, not drown in a puddle of ads and/or sponsored posts displayed between every other post in any thread you are trying to read.
Having the choice to only see posts from the people you follow and nothing else, in chronological order, is all I really wanted to get personally.
X/Twitter has come to a point it is literally unusable even with the same mindset, so it is still nice to have an alternative nonetheless.
Ironically, I do appreciate the "echo chamber" kind of feeling, whatever that really means.
This is probably related to the fact that blocking users is a lot more effective, as well as being able to limit who is allowed to reply and/or quote your posts.
Sometime there are fights not worth picking, and some people aren't worth your time either.
The only feature missing is the ability to have a private account, but considering how open the platform is I doubt this could be done at all, but I could also be wrong.
I know I might sound like I am a Bluesky shill, but so far I've had a much better experience on that platform for the few months I have been using it, compared to the 10 years I have been on Twitter.
Hopefully I won't lose my account overnight, like I have had it happen on Mastodon, which is on my personal shitlist for that reason alone honestly lol.
Still to this day it blows my mind how anyone could trust an instance with an admin owning full control over it, and if they get bored of it and let the thing decay, it's all gone, with no recovery option.
Yes, I am still somewhat upset about it, I didn't even have a chance to migrate my account to a different instance so everything attached to my account disappeared from internet overnight.
As for Twitter, I chose to not delete my account yet just so I would avoid any potential impersonator using my username once it is free to use again.
I really don't see any reason to use it anymore now that 80% of the people I was following have also moved to Bluesky, and I think that is another good reason to use it over Twitter, but again that is just my opinion.
At the end of the day, everyone is free to use or not use what they want, and that is all that really matters to me.
I do agree that most social media generally suck, that is a fact.
