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18 days agoyeah, I tested most of the software, and still use Mastodon and Wafrn. I use mastodon to follow a hashtag, but it didn’t deliver what it promised. Few major tech youtubers bounced back from it due extreme toxicity.
Wafrn is super wacky software. You can play doom and bite people. It has rage-bait driven development* and connects to bluesky and fediverse at the same time without a bridge.
Bookwyrm and Piefed didn’t deliver what I would want from their respective domains.
*allegedly
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatbot_psychosis
I would STRONGLY advise to not use LLMs and chatbots then. There are early studies that link chat bot use to making some mental disorders worse. There is no link yet to actually induce one in a healthy individual, but you are not one, and I would mark it as potential risk for you.
Chatbots might seem smart, inteligent and educated, as they are using fancy and complicated words, but it’s a lie. They don’t know what they are talking about, they will be sycophantic to you and agree with every falsehood that it might came across.
You can pursue higher education without paying a dime. You won’t get fancy paper, but you can build an expertise yourself. There are plenty of textbooks out there. openstax.org is great resource to get high quality textbooks. I have watched lectures on youtube to get an education that wasn’t available for me at the time. No one will be able to take that knowledge from you.