I’m liking it so far, the communities I’ve federated with are mostly chill and quite a bit of fun. That being said, there’s dark parts of the fediverse too. I plan on keeping my instance around for a while, but so far it’s just me and a friend or two, but maybe that’s a good thing?
You can also use reader clients - I use LiFeRea on linux, it’s in the app repository as liferea. It;s free