yeah for me, i think the assuming of worst faith, jumping down people's throats for innocuous shit (or at least, non-ill-intended shit), and dunking/owning/winning arguments as a form of currency just feel too baked into the cultural architecture of the medium of the internet to fully escape it. hexbear is generally a lot better than the rest of what's out there, but it's not immune by any means.
and as far as the explicitly political end of the internet, the mistaking of doing discourse/having the correct opinions online for actually Doing Politics/being a political actor is also kind of inherent. again, people are a lot more cognizant of that trap on this site than others, but it's still baked in to a degree.
i'd probably follow your example of shooting for once a week of internet time, but i have a high downtime job in front of a computer most of the day. so here i am
this is probably bad opsec but i was leading the planning of a fun soft power cultural event series in my organizing life but it got owned by IP/licensing law BS & so my pet project never happened & i am still very bummed about it