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

[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

[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.