Is anyone using Mastodon as their primary social media and is it working for you?

[jb643@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. I deleted my facebook account which I have wanted to do for years.

[diekehrseite@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks its even working as my only social media.

[runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz]

@LianaBrooks Yep, I'm only on Masto and Plurk. I don't need any other SocMed in my life.

[eduse7en42@social.vivaldi.net]

@LianaBrooks I don't use it completely. I still have some content on X, Instagram and Facebook. Much because of my family members and the content that we share between us (me and my wife). I tried to convince her to use it here, but it wasn't good.

[cryptica@retro.pizza]

@LianaBrooks

Yes, and Kind Of.

I'd prefer if mastodon started off as a shitty facebook clone instead of a shitty twitter clone.

[jaykass@mastodon.online]

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes.

I don’t want wide reach and I don’t want promoted content in my feed.

I want to find nice weirdos and be weird on the internet together.

[redstarfish@freesoftwareextremist.com]

@LianaBrooks I've been using fediverse as my only social media since 2019. Works for me.

[bawalla@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks not just pimary, but exclusively. No other account onany other platform. Guess iI’ll never be an influencer. Couldn’t be happier about that

[johnlogic@sfba.social]

@LianaBrooks

Yes and yes.

After about 20 years on Facebook, I deleted my account there a few months ago, when they announced that they wanted to add AI that would scape user profiles. I had deleted my Twitter account after Musk bought it and turned it into an online Nazi bar. (I gave up Myspace a long while ago too.)

Microsoft seems to want to add "social" functions to LinkedIn, but I don't want to even "like" any political posts there.

I like the community I find here on Mastodon.

[john_livingston@mamot.fr]

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes.

[nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social]

@LianaBrooks I've ended up ditching everything else. I have a Matrix account I still use from time to time, but it's mostly to talk to one person I have no other means to talk to I guess. (Everyone else just ignored me there. People really really do not like Matrix for some reason... I honestly don't quite get the hate, though I do agree it is hardly perfect.)

I do hate the character limits sometimes though. Even on an instance with a larger limit it's often holding me back. (Hey, communication is hard.) Well, it's still better than a certain commercial platform.

Thanks to the way hashtags are used here it has actually been kind of helpful to find some stuff I might not normally run across, so there's that, but I feel like I do see a lot less people.

[bthylafh@nerdculture.de]

@LianaBrooks Yes. Pretty reasonably well: it's chiller than FB was and there's _way_ more retrocomputing nerds, queers, furries, and other neurodivergent people here.

I miss keeping up with some of the people I was FB friends with, but I no longer have to see various relations' politics, especially valuable since last year.

[br549@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks @trending_bot

yes and yes. Left Twitter 3 years ago and have enjoyed being in the Fediverse ever since. Being able to manage who and what topics I follow has been great.

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@LianaBrooks yes to both

[jarg0n@mastodon.online]

@LianaBrooks Yes & yes, except I read the youTube comments more if I need the get some trashy. Masto users are mostly pretty chill & smart folks.

[abetterjulie@wandering.shop]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes.

[shellsharks@shellsharks.social]

@LianaBrooks Yes and absolutely!

[timdesuyo@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yes

[antmeery@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks no, not really. Too difficult to attract followers, too much tech. Disappointing Using Bluesky more

[0x00string@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks yes