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

@LianaBrooks security clique moved over here so it's interesting enough for me I guess.

but other communities didn't move that other friends need. without that nucleus, not very handy

@LianaBrooks Yep. I'm also still on FB to keep in touch with some important to me people who simply don't have the desire to move.

But I'm mostly here, meeting more of "my" people than I have anywhere else online in 30 years.

@LianaBrooks There's other social media?

@LianaBrooks
#Mastodon is my only social media since Musk bought Twitter.
I cancelled #Insta at same time.
*edit Yes it works very well for me, so many interesting people and great #'s to follow.

@LianaBrooks
Yes, this is my main social media (no fb, no insta, no x) anything is deleted 2022finally - only exception currently is #linkedin for my business connections.
After I found my peers on Mastodon I never regretted the step - anyhow as always a fresh start is intense but expands own perspective in the long run!

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes

@LianaBrooks yes and absolutely!

@LianaBrooks Yes.

@LianaBrooks

It's pretty much my only social media, besides some online forums. It works for me, but I'm not a heavy user.

@LianaBrooks 100%. I’ve only used Mastodon for around 4 years and haven’t looked back.

@LianaBrooks Me. I'm on here more than anywhere else.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. People are overwhelmingly great to interact with. I’m long done with surveillance state/Fascist-controlled social media.

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes, for > 6 years and it's good for my mental health.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes

@LianaBrooks yes & yes

@LianaBrooks yes + yes.

I also sporadically glance Pixelfed but that's it.

@LianaBrooks

Yes and yes. I have no social media presence outside of mastodon and I prefer it this way.

@LianaBrooks I was only on facebunk for a month during the pandemic and I ditched it pretty quickly because I felt kind of dirty after awhile. Very distasteful. I'm not sure if I'm getting much out of Mastodon. I have a feed of stuff I kind of like but, nobody I know is on it except one guy who doesn't post. I find it difficult to find people on it. I'll keep on it and it may change although I'm not sure social media is good for much. To be truthful, I don't know why people seem to like soc/med.

@LianaBrooks yeah, I don't remember what was the last straw but last January I finally deleted my (already disused & derelict) Facebook & Instagram accounts. I never got into Tiktok and left the musky Twitter with great haste, despite it being my last stronghold of "social media" still in heavy use. I had tried Bluesky for a bit but really only visited it like once a month until they decided to go with the age verification garbage and just left (can't even delete my account without accepting the new terms and I didn't care enough to pursue as I had barely any content in there anyway).

On the other hand the Fedi and my self-hosted Mastodon instance doesn't just align with my values and gives me full control I never head around my social media, it has also grown, bit by bit to a point where it absolutely can and does serve as my primary social media lifeline! It took some time but I couldn't be happier with it.

https://flaki.social/@flaki/116040038448859463

@LianaBrooks yes and yes, although what's working for me probably doesn't count for people used to twitter back when it was good.