Mastodon

Hell if your just someone that wants a private place to upload dank memes and share with co-workers and nothing else under the Fediverse you can create your own 100% private instance.

I know but this is different. This is not social media. I wish the Fediverse and especially Mastodon stopped calling themselves social media because they are not one.

I really don’t know what of the Fediverse made you go “because assholes use it, it means the Fediverse likes it.”

I'm a supporter of the "the community is how its majority is" opinion and in this case the majority is questionable. Sure I can join an instance ran by people I support (not that there are any that I'm familiar with because all of them get bullied by the majority) but it'll basically be just a group chat with additional features. A true social media should accept everyone who follows the rules imo. That way there can be a real conversation with different opinions. What the Fediverse is doing is just a natural version of Big Tech algorithms.