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

@LianaBrooks mosdefs

@LianaBrooks Yes, for myself, and update and informational accounts for all of my apps and software. Read-only or deactivated from X.

@LianaBrooks this format of social media does work best for me.

@LianaBrooks Yes and it is whatever. This is the least mental place and people seem able to have discussions without it resorting to yelling at each other.

This is the closest I can get to the old school social media scrolling where I can find cool, wholesome, or silly stuff without constantly being bombarded with politics, vitriol and hatred.

I am just tired of social media if I am being honest, I have halfway gotten off everything, deleted my main accounts but keeping throwaways around.

@LianaBrooks Mastodon and Strava. Gave up the rest three+ years ago

@LianaBrooks absolutely YES, on both counts. Fled the birdsite 3 years ago to mastodon.lol, and when the admin folded that instance in a snit, I was actually approached and invited to join my current instance - the admin even helped with the housekeeping. How cool is that? And the engagement on the fediverse is active, genuine and enjoyable. I have one-third the followers I had on Twitter, and three times the engagement. I’ve encountered a few honest conservatives, very few, and no nazis while here.

@LianaBrooks I would love for it to be, but family and friends are mostly on FB. I live in a pretty small town, and groups and local events are FB dominated. I think that’s part of the stickiness of FB — groups and events. I really love the lack of ads and no algorithm here. It’s refreshing.

@LianaBrooks

the primary, and the only.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. Since 2019.

@LianaBrooks yes

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

@LianaBrooks Yes. Primary and the only one. But my definition of "working for me" is very simple, functional one.

I use ActivityPub as my primary social media, yes - at least in a POSSE fashion where my posts then land on Bluesky and wherever else. The fact that my #Friendica account can also browse Bluesky and RSS feeds also helps a lot.

@LianaBrooks Absolutely! I left all the others and I don’t miss a thing.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes.

@LianaBrooks

Yes! I love it here. It was hard to give up the “other” social media initially, but I am so glad I did. I just didn’t want to support corrupt billionaires who were filling my feeds with horrible algorithms and relentless ads/ influencers hawking things.

@LianaBrooks
It's my only social media, and it's great for me.

@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?