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I realized how much of a marketing cesspool Reddit has become once I left it. That along with the whole doom scrolling has been toxic to my mental health. So I am much better off without it.
That said, the fediverse seems to be a little too small especially for niche topics. Plus the this world still needs some tool/interface to unify it and make it easier to use. I still go back reddit once in a while for those niche communities but I have logged out for the first time in a decade+ from reddit.
I have started focusing on my hobbies more, the whole reddit fiasco has been a reminder that it is not just FB that is bad, it is everything including Reddit and in time possibly places like this if it grows.
I remember joining reddit a few years back, and it was on the cusp of when it became a cesspool. I wouldn't post often (Maybe twice a month), but every time the engagement became less and less useful. Kind like how stack overflow users can never actually give you a helpful answer, they only link to other vaguely related ones, Reddit became "Oh, it's because x and y" to "Oh god you're so fucking stupid it's obviously Z".
And I just kinda dipped out to lurking on twitter, and then twitter became so god awful that I can't even open the app without feeling like humanity lost its way.
Anyways other than that Kbin has been doing me justice. I've never been more active on any other platform.
I feel like the key to all those places that get bad for general use but still has use is moving to access through unofficial means without bothering with any accounts, and taking interacting completely out of the equation. Like Twitter for example just setting up a RSS with nitter.net or Fritter app. So you get nothing beyond what you specifically want. No algorithms suggesting random unrelated stuff to you. And there's extra benefit of not providing extra telemetry either by using official means.
RES and third party apps were essential to get a happy experience from reddit to block a bunch of material from places you didn't want to see or had no interest in.