i was using 3.0.1 and it was working fine, saw the 3.0.2 update and my game was stuck in a loading screen loop so i individually tested all the mods and saw sodium was causing the issue.
List of mods i use:
FerriteCore
Sodium
Indium
Hydrogen
Lithium
Enhanced block entities
Starlight
Mod Menu
Smooth Boot
Fabric API

Duplicate of #25 (despite the misleading title), the problem is the same on 1.16.5 and on 1.17.1