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

@LianaBrooks its my only social media account for many years. It brings me such a sense of relief and jolly that I often have trouble understanding the cruel silliness of other social media and certain events. Sometimes I have to ask people IRL "have you heard about this [big fediverse thing]" but usually the gap isnt that wide.

@LianaBrooks 90% primary. I Bluesky occasionally, but the community here is working out amazingly for me.

@LianaBrooks i congratulate you on developing the perfect question to drive engagement on Mastodon.

@LianaBrooks love it. Once you get used to authentic engagement, it's what social media used to be.

@LianaBrooks I am, it seems to work well for me but I still use it way more than I should.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes!

@LianaBrooks It's my main (if you count the professional Slack group I'm in), and I love it.

@LianaBrooks yes and no. but social media shouldn’t work.

@LianaBrooks yes and yes.

@LianaBrooks GTS is the only general-purpose social platform we've used for a couple years now. it's been nice. of course, our goals may differ from most people's.

@LianaBrooks yes and yes. Except when it comes to much needed work finding (focus of every thing every day)

However LinkedIn is far more useless and at least here I'm mansplained less

@LianaBrooks yes, and yes.

@LianaBrooks yes, on here I can't be shadow banned or censored by billionaires

@LianaBrooks thought we all were

@LianaBrooks Yes but unknown because I am really just starting to use Mastodon. My Facebook use is down 90%, TikTok is view only and zero Instagram, Bluesky or Snap. I deleted my X account when Elon started Doge.

My early assessment is kinda but it's a really different experience and group. I think it's good but I'll need to adapt to it and nobody I know is here, so this is just online connections only.

@LianaBrooks @lydiaschoch Yes, and yes. My needs are modest, though.

@LianaBrooks !!

@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.

@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.

@LianaBrooks yes. And yes.