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

@LianaBrooks Yes, yes.

@LianaBrooks

Primary: yes.

Working for me: depends on the day, sometimes it gets too political / too enraging in a way that is even more toxic than commercial social media. I find it really really hard to remove myself from US politics even though I carefully curate who I follow. That's the disappointing part of it for me. The US gets a disproportionate attention to the number of people I follow who are not in the US.

I agree with others in that it is more educational, but at the same time there's a lot of window dressing going on.

@LianaBrooks yes, and yes.

@LianaBrooks yes
Confused by the “does it work” for me. I’m baffled corporate social media “works” for anyone. How does being a tool for billionaires work for anyone???

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. It is effectively my only social media. I have an Instagram account still, but I go months without looking at it.

@LianaBrooks Unlike some others, I was never on FB, Instagram, Snapchat, etc. Mastodon and Pixelfed are all the social media I need.

@LianaBrooks me and sure thing

Love it, but it's not perfect. Neither is social anything. Unfortunately a big problem with mastodon are those folks who think it can't be improved and tell you You are Wrong for whatever Obstacle it presents you.

Fortunately ignoring such people is a solid remedy!

@LianaBrooks ~ I left Facebook in 2022 and never looked back. Mastodon is my only social media outlet and if that fails me - I am gone

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Yes. Works fine. The only other one I'm on is NextDoor and I'm only there occasionally to make fun of my fellow old farts.

@LianaBrooks @paul_ipv6
Yes, and social media is still not a good alternative to real life

@LianaBrooks
It's my only social media

@LianaBrooks yes @autistics

@LianaBrooks I don't use it _that_ much (never used Twitter), but I come on here occasionally, Lemmy more so, and, unfortunately, still use Discord. That is the main trifecta.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. I do wish more of my IRL friends were on here too but I still enjoy it.

@LianaBrooks Yes, but I think too well of it to think of it as 'social media', though I realise that it is.

@LianaBrooks Yup I am. I do read a bit on others but never post anywhere else. Oh wait. I do post on Lemmy but that’s also Fedi

@LianaBrooks ...I guess? It does feel like there's maybe five people that actually read my posts, but once I stopped worrying about these things and embraced the JOMO, my life got much better. Or, at least, nicer.

@LianaBrooks working just fine

@LianaBrooks I'm exclusively on the Fediverse... I won't touch anything else.

I don't see the Fediverse  as "media". It's a network, it's about communication, not about being passively fed algorithmic garbage.

It works because I get to engage with the people I want to engage with, and don't end up doom scrolling or being rage bated (most of the time).

@LianaBrooks yes + yes