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

[auxonic@ottawa.place]

@LianaBrooks 💯!!

[mast0d0nphan@beige.party]

@LianaBrooks Yes, it's my primary after getting rid of Facecrook, Shitter, Instasham and Crapchat back in 2018, and Poosky and Pisscord this year.

Yes, Mastodon, and other Fedi platforms like @pixelfed, PieFed, @loops and Misskey totally work for me.

[rebelyn2@c.im]

@LianaBrooks Yes this is my primary social media interaction but I am not as satisfied with it as I would wish to be. It's harder to find the types of accounts I am interested in following - predominantly news and arts/culture - but it feels safer and more affirming than twitter ever did. Still, I would like more community within my interests.

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yes. And yes.

[pinchy63@ottawa.place]

@LianaBrooks
Yes. This is my only social site. Love it here.

[doomsdayscw@kolektiva.social]

@LianaBrooks Much to the dismay of my Corporate media-using friends and family, YES!!! Spending most of my time here, and it is very much working for me.

[colesstreetpothole@weatherishappening.network]

@LianaBrooks 👋🏻Yes and yes!

[gatesvp@mstdn.ca]

@LianaBrooks absolutely

[chertridge@beige.party]

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes.

[greatbigtable@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes. I regularly get news items related to computer security before my colleagues because of the people and hashtags that I follow. It has proven itself to be a valuable resource.

I do not use X, Bluesky, Threads, Instagram, or TikTok.

I do have Facebook and LinkedIn accounts that I primarily use for workplace activities. I also use the Facebook account to promote a local event once a month. That's it.

I use Discord for TTRPG related projects and news.

[mikal@sfba.social]

@Montaagge @LianaBrooks

😂 right? I saw this and was like, "that's bait."

[alpha1beta@libretweet.com]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes.

[murteza@edmontonian.social]

@LianaBrooks@mastodon.online
Abandoned Twitter couple years before I left Facebook. I left Facebook after getting a computer that was more capable than playing FarmVille, then WhatsApp was acquired by Facebook. Then there was a period with Google+ for me.

There was a gap time. Then I found about Mastodon, Fosstodon to be specific, which was founded by people who were active on G+.
I have been on Fediverse since 2019.

[littlepolarbear@freeradical.zone]

@Condorito @LianaBrooks
Im still getting into it but this is where I'm at. Many of the topics I used to engage with on X are non existent or limited to bots reposting X or substack content. Im not a programmer which seems to be a large swath of content I see rn.

Still enjoying the type of stuff I see enough to keep me here and hopeful it continues to grow.

[deborahh@cosocial.ca]

@LianaBrooks @lydiaschoch yes. Once I found a third-party android client I liked.

[onmywalk@vmst.io]

@LianaBrooks
Yes++! I like it here ❤

[hopeward@sunny.garden]

@LianaBrooks Yup.

[edwing@mstdn.moimeme.ca]

@LianaBrooks Unfortunately yes (wish it would be SMS), and yes!

[carbsrule_en@polyglot.city]

@LianaBrooks yes. It mostly works, although I still see threads where it's like:

Person A: *some strong opinion*
Person A: [tags person B on some other server whose reply can't be seen] that's an interesting point

[mikal@sfba.social]

@LianaBrooks

Y/Y
I do wish more of my off-line friends were on here, though. And most of the outdoor adventure/photography community is on Instagram, where I have an account that I rarely use. I check there regularly to check for any messages or comments I need to reply to, but try to minimize any interaction that will give Meta more data.

But just this evening I saw someone follow me and it was an activist friend whom I haven't seen in person in almost 40 years. If I recall right, we had some online interaction 20+ years ago on Facebook or somewhere. I might send her a quick DM saying hi with my contact info. But I wish I could feel OK about just chatting, like I do here.

The other downside about the Fedi compared to Instagram in particular is that, as a photographer, I would get way more notice and traction there. I still occasionally post a photo and tell people to go look at my website, but it just makes me barf to know that everything I post there will feed Meta's AI slop machine.