Yes, this makes browsing 100% better. Although I also like that there’s no algorithm watching me, so if I click on something topical it doesn’t say “HELLO I WANT TO SEE NOTHNG BUT THIS IN MY TIMELINE NOW!” to the system.
Behold! My Mastodon server. It’s been up a week and not gone strange (apart from filling its disk when I added a relay), I think it can go live with my other Pi servers tomorrow.