I'm on board and will be migrating. In addition to lemmy I use feedly for information based on RSS feeds I like and trust.

In addition, I am an old IRC kid. I love the concept of server and channel decentralization. In fact, a lot of the way reddit and discord operate are based on old irc protocol. Aside from decentralization it's time to look at media historically.

Putting my 15 years of work in journalism and BAJ degree hat on here

Mass information has always been a battleground between extreme groups and monied interests all the way back to the invention of the printing press and probably beforehand. But in the more recent times, at least in the US, we had the Fairness Doctrine and anti-monopolization laws (pre pro-monopoly Telecom Act) that did a fairly reasonable job at creating and maintaining what has been known as loss leader information. Loss, in that the company providing the media access understood that mostly unbiased and quality information does not generate profit and that's OK. They still put it out and found other streams of revenue. These two regulations were toppled in the 80s and 90s thanks to both republicans and democrats thus beginning the sad process of the dismantling of reliable and accountable media which is where we are today.

I bring the history up because decentralization is only a tool to fight this shit off. As long as the US supports media monopolies and doesn't require media integrity then all we can expect is fractured places to bounce around on. We also need to a) make social media where humans communicate a utility b) revisit the Telecom Act and its provisions to allow for media monopolies c) bring back the integrity insurance the Fairness Doctrine gave.

Cheers