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

@LianaBrooks not my primary social media platform but it hasnt given me any problems in the nearly 4 years ive been on it

It's harder to find the types of accounts I am interested in following[...]

I'm wondering if you have tried following/searching by tags related to your interests. That's how I usually find my people.

CC: @LianaBrooks@mastodon.online

@LianaBrooks it's my only social media and I am very happy with it.

@Tiffany same! using @Tusky solved the first problem for me. The second problem is much harder I think…

@LianaBrooks

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes!

@alice @LianaBrooks SAME.

@LianaBrooks
Yes, and what do you mean by "working for you"?

@iwein @Tusky @LianaBrooks Maybe I will try Tusky! And I will wish us both luck in finding a sense of connection. I’m really lucky to have connections outside of social media - a couple book clubs, and I facilitate a couple peer groups and am doing some collective narrative projects. But I still really miss the feeling I used to have in social media spaces, that felt like casually running across friends in public space. Maybe it will come with time.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. I deleted my facebook account which I have wanted to do for years.

@LianaBrooks its even working as my only social media.

@LianaBrooks Yep, I'm only on Masto and Plurk. I don't need any other SocMed in my life.

@LianaBrooks I don't use it completely. I still have some content on X, Instagram and Facebook. Much because of my family members and the content that we share between us (me and my wife). I tried to convince her to use it here, but it wasn't good.

@LianaBrooks

Yes, and Kind Of.

I'd prefer if mastodon started off as a shitty facebook clone instead of a shitty twitter clone.

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes.

I don’t want wide reach and I don’t want promoted content in my feed.

I want to find nice weirdos and be weird on the internet together.

@LianaBrooks Yes and (largely) yes. It's pretty much the one social media platform (aside from some old-style discussion forums) where I actively interact with people. I no longer have BlueSky, haven't had Instagram or Twitter in years. The experience so far has been generally pleasant and uplifting.

@LianaBrooks I've been using fediverse as my only social media since 2019. Works for me.

@LianaBrooks not just pimary, but exclusively. No other account onany other platform. Guess iI’ll never be an influencer. Couldn’t be happier about that

@LianaBrooks

Yes and yes.

After about 20 years on Facebook, I deleted my account there a few months ago, when they announced that they wanted to add AI that would scape user profiles. I had deleted my Twitter account after Musk bought it and turned it into an online Nazi bar. (I gave up Myspace a long while ago too.)

Microsoft seems to want to add "social" functions to LinkedIn, but I don't want to even "like" any political posts there.

I like the community I find here on Mastodon.

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes.

@LianaBrooks I've ended up ditching everything else. I have a Matrix account I still use from time to time, but it's mostly to talk to one person I have no other means to talk to I guess. (Everyone else just ignored me there. People really really do not like Matrix for some reason... I honestly don't quite get the hate, though I do agree it is hardly perfect.)

I do hate the character limits sometimes though. Even on an instance with a larger limit it's often holding me back. (Hey, communication is hard.) Well, it's still better than a certain commercial platform.

Thanks to the way hashtags are used here it has actually been kind of helpful to find some stuff I might not normally run across, so there's that, but I feel like I do see a lot less people.