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

[mungencakes@kolektiva.social]

@LianaBrooks Only and yes

[kostyn@niagara.social]

@LianaBrooks yep and more or less. I'm still missing a lot of my local community here though.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks I haven't actually decided what it's supposed to be doing for me.

[lydialurch@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks My one and only and I’m quite pleased with it.

[xerozohar@retro.pizza]

@LianaBrooks yup to both

[gavinisdie@masto.ai]

@LianaBrooks not my primary social media platform but it hasnt given me any problems in the nearly 4 years ive been on it

[adnan@ap.aelaraji.com]

It's harder to find the types of accounts I am interested in following[...]

I'm wondering if you have tried following/searching by tags related to your interests. That's how I usually find my people.

CC: @LianaBrooks@mastodon.online

[iwein@mas.to]

@Tiffany same! using @Tusky solved the first problem for me. The second problem is much harder I think…

@LianaBrooks

[vaughnhannon@goto.socialyeti.club]

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes!

[feloniouspunk@beige.party]

@alice @LianaBrooks SAME.

[yaarur@tooot.im]

@LianaBrooks
Yes, and what do you mean by "working for you"?

[tiffany@disabled.social]

@iwein @Tusky @LianaBrooks Maybe I will try Tusky! And I will wish us both luck in finding a sense of connection. I’m really lucky to have connections outside of social media - a couple book clubs, and I facilitate a couple peer groups and am doing some collective narrative projects. But I still really miss the feeling I used to have in social media spaces, that felt like casually running across friends in public space. Maybe it will come with time.

[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