Just run a node anon. And yeah you can choose whatever implementation you want. That’s good.

Personally I prefer running Core and I don’t consider Knots being a production grade serious alternative on par with Core in terms of open source and software best practices (and there are obvious reasons for this to be the case, and it does not mean it could not change), but the choice is yours and it’s fine if you switch to Knots as a voice of protest. I think client diversity is a healthy debate to have at the end of the day, so maybe the filters drama was a good excuse to put it on the table I don’t know. I think there is a lot of bad faith arguments from some people pushing users to switch to Knots but that’s fine, Bitcoin is resilient and does not care about those drama.

But yeah, just run a node, it really matters.