I can't. Yes, it's a failure on me, but my experience is better without Facebook in my life.
You mention negativity, and that's part of it. I saw a steady stream of "the world's on fire" type posts. The other side, the rosy view of my friends and family also wasn't great. It was a steady stream of my brain using this as a chance to remind me I can't live up to these people, that I'm falling behind, and that in general, I suck.
It's not true. I could have crafted an equal fantasy and posted it, but I'm not that person. I could let the positive and negative posts go without influencing my mental well-being, but I'm apparently not that person.
All of this is a long way of saying, for me, Facebook is baggage I had to carry around with me. I didn't need to open it, but I knew it was there, ready to mock me at any time. Now my account is gone, and that bit of unnecessary baggage is gone. It added nothing to my life, only made it worse.
And then the next political cycle hit and I straight up quit. I found the political ads more offensive than anything, and I've never been back since.
FB is a terrible place, ignore the poster you're responding to because they very well could be putting on airs while you're trying to be more honest about things. That's the nature of social media, of which HN is included.
As someone who has worked with C and C++ for living for over 20 years, I wouldn't think twice about picking either Go or Rust if I were to start again. Go gives you the fast edit/compile/test loop of an interpreted language with the runtime speed of a compiled language. Rust is the language that the C++ Committee would make if they could start over.
That being said, Go will never take over the C, C++, and Rust niche. Going to and from Go-land and C-land is too expensive. Google has no interest in stepping behind libraries that aren't internet servers. Go will live a long life as a great environment to port your Python, Ruby, and other bloated server languages. It just will never be the next language to write a web browser.
Rust is amazing though. I see this as the programming language of the future until the U.S. Government slams down the hammer and forces everyone to use DOD-approved Ada.
Bjarne has explicitly refuted this opinion.