It's... better in the sense that you don't have right wing weirdos all over the place. But technically? Organizationally? Feels like we're on track to replay the same exact shit over again. It feels like people just aren't learning the lessons they should from the Twitter takeover.
Nostr guys (even though that you'll also find right-wing werdos) are building great things. Open source client side algorithmes that you can choose, value4value and more.
As of today it's still clunky and people are not used to not having account and managing cryptographic keys so too early, the fediverse is a nice middleground in my opinion.