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

[dermoth@jasette.facil.services]

@LianaBrooks It has to, I never had an account on FB or Twitter, I've always found their model to be broken by design. And it turned even worse than I thought possible...

[reddog@syzito.xyz]

@LianaBrooks Yes, except for two whatsapp groups for work, which Isn't 'social' per se... so .

[jmrubillon@mastodon.ie]

@LianaBrooks yes and Oh, yes. I love it on the fediverse. Mostly polite discourse, great user controls. What's not to like?

[8tpercent@fosstodon.org]

@LianaBrooks It's a yes and yes from me. It's a much more enjoyable platform.

[libewa@chaos.social]

@LianaBrooks
Yes and meh.
Well, depending on what you qualify as SoMe.
Does Signal count? Otherwise, most people in my age group are of course on Instagram and Snapchat (which violates their TOS btw). But, as I am a rule-adhering person, I never created an account there, and now have found my leftist echo chamber here. My friends all have Signal, and so we send each other posts there (and also do so less frequently).
Mastodon to scream at the world, Signal for friends.

[bicycletting@mastodon.ie]

@LianaBrooks it's my only social media. Can't stand the other ones.
Mastodon's not perfect, but it's good enough for me.

[afink@mastodon.sl]

@LianaBrooks yes its working. imported users from twitter and added some random ones based on topic search. now more followers and no advertizement crap. Twitter I abandoned completely the day Elon killed the API so well working clients (which existed way before twitters own rubbish client) got locked out. I enjoy the genuity of Mastodon users. Way more quality

[thomas@metalhead.club]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes. :)

[heinz@graz.social]

@LianaBrooks I am using only Mastodon and Wordpress with #ActivityPub. Works perfectly for me except for monitoring trends. I rely on lists for organizing information. What I have lost in quantity since leaving LinkedIn, X and the Meta platforms completely I have won in quality. Strangely LinkedIn seems to have become so autoreferential that I don't even remark missing it.

[tommoree@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yuh yuh mostly

[mancavgeek@social.teamb.space]

@LianaBrooks OH yes!
Been around the place since 2017 - been through several instances, but exclusively on various Fediverse server types since 2022.
(and hosting my own since 2019 or so!)

[priscillaharing@mastodon.green]

@LianaBrooks For me personally yes it is and yes very much 🩷 for our company No, as it doesn't have sufficient reach... I would love to get off IG

[freddy@social.security.plumbing]

@LianaBrooks yup

[barrysweeney@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks
Yes and Yes. I don't miss the other places at all, this is a much kinder, thoughtful place to be, and I've met some lovely people through being here

[adaraastin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu]

@LianaBrooks yes, and it's great!

Mastodon is my only social account.

[normjess@tech.lgbt]

@LianaBrooks
this is a question best answered by Daniel Bryan

[castaway@fosstodon.org]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

[rupertreynolds@hachyderm.io]

@LianaBrooks Yes, me :-)

I find it takes more time to build connections the Mastodon way, but those connections give me a hugely better signal-to-noise ratio, close to 100%. I gave up on the others one-by-one as they became toxic.

[adaraastin@supervolcano.angryshark.eu]

@LianaBrooks That said, being here absolutely does not sell my audiobooks (I'm a narrator, or rather a former narrator at this point), and after over two years of futile promotions, I now put my energy into other projects (and occasionally post a book promo if the spirit moves me, but with zero expectations of making sales happen).

Changes in my day job + leaving corporate social media for 100% Fedi + my authors doing zero promotions on their back catalogues + AI coming after the voice work industry = I am no longer taking new voice work contracts & rarely promote audiobooks, because the ROI isn't there on Fedi for the time I put.

It is what it is, as the kids say.

[Note: I am not looking for a pep talk, nor for unsolicited advice. This is not an attitude problem (lol), it is a collapsing industry problem. I have cut my losses and moved on, which is a thoroughly considered and prudent business/career/financial move, I assure you.]

Meanwhile, there are also a handful of new audiobook listeners who I have connected with on Fedi, and I am deeply grateful to each and every one of them (/you). The scale just isn't there to make financial sense. So it goes.

But socially? I love it here. I am very, very glad to be on Mastodon / in the Fediverse.

[membrana@bolha.one]

@LianaBrooks yes,works very well.

Small community, very tightly knit. People are generally very kind and genuine. Interactions are meaningful and create bonds. Manageable amount of updates.

Apart from that I use chat platforms to connect with close friends.

I have an Instagram account to reach out to people whom I know are in there when I need to, otherwise I would completely sever all contact bridges with lots and lots of contacts. But I don't browse or post at all.

Linkedin out of NECESSITY unfortunately 💀