@mew It's not really a question of elitism. The centralized nature of Twitter makes it difficult to avoid some of the worst aspects even with very careful timeline curation to the maximum extent possible.

For me there's absolutely no doubt that Mastodon and the fediverse generally are better than Twitter. The last three years have been...a journey...mostly consisting of me unfollowing people and no longer posting much there. As a way of reading the news it's maybe ok. As a way of interacting with other people online it's toxic.