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

[technicaladept@techhub.social]

@LianaBrooks Came here to replace twitter a few years ago. Never looked back. Removed my facebook and linked in bookmarks a few weeks ago. Facebook keeps emailing me when it thinks there's something from friends and family that will lure me back in. Which turns out to be a reasonably well curated feed from them. But most of the time, I'm right here.

[perpetuum_mobile@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks I do. Finally a place like the internet of late nineties and early 2000's
- no algorithm
- real people
- I choose what to see
- meaningful interactions
- I can be myself!

The only thing I don't agree with the general community is the resentment of LLMs. I engineer systems with LLMs built in and I use models to convert unprocessed text into JSON that my systems can ingest. I use local models and choose the ones that used no stolen materials like polish Bielik v3 11B.

[journeysinfilm@hcommons.social]

@LianaBrooks We would really, really, really love it if we had enough interaction with people in education (in the broadest sense) and film here that we could leave corporate social media and still achieve the numbers we need (i.e., resource downloads, newsletter sign-ups, new filmmaker business contacts, and donations). That's not on track to happen soon, but as more people keep joining Fedi, it gets closer to reality!

[barneydellar@mastodon.scot]

@LianaBrooks Yes, and yes :)

[musevg@23.social]

@alice @LianaBrooks
Poisoned? What?

[leonianuniverse@caneandable.social]

@AdaraAstin @LianaBrooks Yes, I use Masto as my primary social media and have been for the past couple years now. Its been a great experience, not sure how many followers I have, but I really don't care all that much, I'm just grateful people want to even read any posts about me at all in the first place.

[rasterweb@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks A hearty yes and yes!

[cosmictraveler@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks Yes, and I love it 💓

[bart@smop.fyi]

@LianaBrooks @vladimir_lu Yes. I went from mailinglists and Usenet to Twitter and then Mastodon, mostly as a consumer, so no need to worry about who I can reach.

It’s plenty to feel connected to the rest of the world.

[ndw@toot.wales]

@LianaBrooks Yep.

[alternatecelt@mastodon.scot]

@LianaBrooks
Maybe not primary, but definitely preferred. I am trapped in Facebook by work and keeping in touch with family.
Mastodon works well for me, it's a friendly, sensible space with lots of good interaction.

[samebchase@fantastic.earth]

@LianaBrooks Absolutely yes to both.

[tina@openbiblio.social]

@LianaBrooks
I do and it does work for me. 🙂

[cargot_robbie@urbanists.social]

@LianaBrooks Yep. It's my only social networking account, unless you count YouTube. I like my fedi experience.

[thmcguire@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks Yes, and yes. I suspect I miss things on other platforms that might be interesting. I know 100% I am missing things on other platforms that are terrible. It’s a trade off I’m happy to make. I’m over 60 years old, so most of my life I learned about current events through newspapers, community groups, and talking with family and friends.

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes.

[thejaysunday@mamot.fr]

@LianaBrooks 1000 times yes!

[wtl@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks @blogdiva 💯 Wouldn’t have it any other way now, either.

[kaiserkiwi@corteximplant.com]

@LianaBrooks yes

[shaulaevans@zirk.us]

@kamrathobbit @LianaBrooks 💯 #TeamMostodon