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

[skleefeld@retro.pizza]

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

[emptyset@dobbs.town]

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

[bowreality@mastodon.social]

@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

[virtulis@loud.computer]

@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.

[helloclippy@techhub.social]

@LianaBrooks working just fine

[unattributed@gotosocial.social]

@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).

[satuelisa@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yes + yes

[mewsleah@meow.social]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

[criticalangle@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yup its working for me!

[claushoumann@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks @pseudonym yep*2

[seismoallegra@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks primary? Well maybe 40 percent masto and 60 percent bsky.

[0x0ddc0ffee@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks The Fediverse is my only remaining social medium. It's the only tolerable one left.

[astronomy_a2z@mstdn.social]

@LianaBrooks I deactivated all my other social media accounts in 2022 after Melon Husk enshittified X. I have not looked back since. And even though I was on Twitter and Facebook from nearly the beginning, I slowly rebuilt my sources of information on Mastodon and am highly impressed by the lack of corporate authoritarianism on the platform.

[ve2uwy@mastodon.radio]

@LianaBrooks

Yes.

Yes.

Gave up Musk's thing in early '17 (I think?) and gave up Zuck's thing in '22 and was 100% off until last Sept. I poke at it occasionally because of some groups I run.

[gavincampbell@hometech.social]

@LianaBrooks @punissuer It’s my primary. But I also reluctantly use X as most people I need info for work or other things still post there. I can’t get away. But I engage more on Mastodon.

[sordidamok@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks One and only. Works fine.

[peteorrall@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@LianaBrooks Yes, Mastodon is my primary social media platform and it's great. I have no need for going elsewhere.

[montaagge@kolektiva.social]

@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.

[blainsmith@fosstodon.org]

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

[montaagge@kolektiva.social]

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