TL;DR I'll step back from #Mastodon; maybe I'll occasionally post if I do something interesting. RSS is the best.

I feel like the format of "everyone posting about everything without any filter" is, after all, irredeemable. It might be fine for people with a fairly generic worldview who have enough others agreeing with them on most things. Perhaps the latter condition is illusory (I certainly hope so), but some servers' timelines suggest otherwise. And I just see so much stuff I don't want to see.

So, after all, I don't want it.

I don't know what a perfect format would be. Maybe something like:
- laser-focused on some specific topic,
- that I don't discuss much IRL,
- that doesn't provoke insanity in some way.

Or it should require that writing something takes more time than just typing the letters. Maybe LessWrong is a better fit in that regard. Or StackExchange.

#Reddit was reasonably nice in retrospect. I've had interesting arguments there. So, I've removed all politics from my feed, tried reading it for a couple of days... And, like, it's still not good. It's barely interesting enough to make me scroll through when I'm procrastinating.

For now, nothing beats #RSS with read-it-later filtering. I might write a blog post about that.