Better is entirely subjective. Mastodon has so much friction for an average person.
Not to mention most servers are filled with tons of "WeLl ACKWalLY.." types or legit weirdos.
I've heard it summarized: if you hated Twitter you'll like mastodon. If you liked Twitter, you'll love bluesky.
Mastodon aint for everyone. Id hazard to say it's not for most people. It's also no immune to ads or natural centralization.
It reminds me of that South Park episode about Walmart where they fought off the super store and shopped at the small store until it grew into the super store.
I have a few LLMs running locally. I don't have an array of 4090s to spare so I am limited to the smaller models 8B and whatnot.
They definitely aren't as good as anything you get remotely. It's more private and controlled but it's much less useful (I've found) than any of the other models.