Rocky. I run an instance and the codebase is really unstable. FIghting duplicate data in the database, fighting database eating all the ram infinitely and then dying. Here’s hoping the future is brighter as the present is absolutely murky.
As to the whole fediverse being the more difficult one - it technically is, but I think people need to stop being absolute wankers and put more effort than touching a few buttons into everything, not just fediverse.
People wise - the majority of active community is incredibly left shifted, to the point of delusional crap getting to the “frontpage”, if you will. I find it sad that some articles posted get treated as “the real thing”, but the people chanting them haven’t even bothered reading them, as otherwise they’d find those same articles don’t say what they think they say. In that regard it’s just like reddit, I guess.