Still is. The pandemic hasn't ended.

You're right: different parts of the fediverse are broken in different ways. You might notice, though that if you avoid instances behind the rainbow curtain (such as plush.city) that there's less of this sort of thing

It's a lot easier than moving from twitter to any alternatives, that's for sure. Some instances have migration functionality, but it's generally janky. It's FLOSS though so if this functionality is important to you...you can build it. Whereas if this functionality were important to you there is virtually nothing you can do to get it put into twitter.

Of course - there's a benefit to the broader tool that an identity rich, central point of coordination that twitter offers

you're right that there's something inherent in twitter that *is* better than raw RSS that's what the fediverse gives

in your analogy: RSS would be horses, the automobile system(complete with the big auto companies) would be twitter, and the fediverse would be a network of 3d printable flying cars

Most twitter-alternative fediverse servers are. Are you using one of them?

The fediverse is not like that at all. Social media between people is alive and well there. ie the interesting people are still out there, but they have been mostly kicked off of twitter

Twitter didn't replace RSS -- RSS still exists and on the fediverse many servers offer RSS feeds by default

but there is interesting stuff on twitter
it competes with RSS feeds for your computers polling time but doesn't and shouldn't replace it fully

It is a useful tool for getting information out quickly

If the government is lying to you -- you can easily and quickly get a lot of people in the know on what they are lying about.
If you haven't found any "information of value" in the years since short messaging social media has been around, you are definitely in the minority at this point.
Just today, I found 2 scientific papers about the possible origin of covid, 2 neuroscience papers, 35 papers on a promising new covid treatment, learned about the 1880 possible SARS-like russian coronavirus epidemic, the details of people involved with an attempted censorship campaign, communicated with a dozen people I disagree with reducing our scope of disagreement, learned about one of the inventors of BASIC I had never heard of, but who nevertheless influenced my life through her invention, heard of a prominent personality in my country having the cops bust in on his livestream for reasons yet unknown, learned about the statistics of how covid is impacting my local health region (that the government will not release publicly and generally denies), found a couple of funny meme pictures that made me chuckle, found out about someone who i follow who is conducting what's basically gain of function experiments on viruses in their lab, got access to some source code from a program whose source code I don't have access to, found this sobering wikipedia article, and today is a slow day Without access to short messaging systems like the fediverse I would have done other things, of course, with my yesterday...but all of the above was of value

XMPP is not the same as twitter. You can't share with the world with XMPP - the use case is not really similar at all

You *can* share with the world with the fediverse however.

This is a failure mode and doesn't have to happen. When Revolver is released it will further decentralize the fediverse, but that isn't even close to the end of that story

The fediverse includes not just mastodon servers and their communities but dozens of other types of interoperable servers (with millions of users).

With so much censorship what's even the point of caring about what you can search for? The good stuff isn't there, and hasn't been in years.

anyone got a torrent link?

"YTs bread and butter is in user-uploaded content"
Which is why they censor user-uploaded content so thoroughly, and demote it in relationship to their bigger channels on people's feeds? They are totally asleep at the wheel it seems if this is the case.

You are delusional

Russia is not going to be made to pay reparations, and even if they could it would destabilize relations with China with whomever tried to make them.

Russia is not some lightweight to be pushed around on the world stage.

This is only true if people aren't interested in trading, without government interference

the price of bitcoin doesn't determine how much mining happens, the push from governments around the world to solve their problems by printing currency and restricting who can spend money on what *does*