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

[runoutgroover@cloudisland.nz]

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

[eduse7en42@social.vivaldi.net]

@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.

[cryptica@retro.pizza]

@LianaBrooks

Yes, and Kind Of.

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

[jaykass@mastodon.online]

@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.

[bawalla@mastodon.social]

@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

[georgia@netzsphaere.xyz]

@redstarfish @LianaBrooks 2019 for me too!

[br549@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks @trending_bot

yes and yes. Left Twitter 3 years ago and have enjoyed being in the Fediverse ever since. Being able to manage who and what topics I follow has been great.

[backfromthedud@mas.to]

@LianaBrooks yes to both

[jarg0n@mastodon.online]

@LianaBrooks Yes & yes, except I read the youTube comments more if I need the get some trashy. Masto users are mostly pretty chill & smart folks.

[abetterjulie@wandering.shop]

@LianaBrooks yes and yes.

[shellsharks@shellsharks.social]

@LianaBrooks Yes and absolutely!

[timdesuyo@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks yes

[antmeery@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks no, not really. Too difficult to attract followers, too much tech. Disappointing Using Bluesky more

[0x00string@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks yes

[5teverin0@toot.community]

@LianaBrooks Before I found the Fediverse, I had never been a social media user (save Reddit) – no Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, no nuthin'. Mastodon, and later Pixelfed and Lemmy, turned out to be everything I wanted social media to be, and nothing that kept me away from the others. Mastodon is my main social media, and it works great for me, and federation makes it easy to follow all kinds of accounts.

[eryops@dice.camp]

@LianaBrooks Yes, this is the only social media account I have, and there are lots of cats.

[jrdepriest@infosec.exchange]

@LianaBrooks

Yes.

I started by joining a thriving instance and watching the Local and Federated feeds.

Then I started following hashtags.

Then I found people posting things I liked and started following people.

It took time, months, but I have a very active feed and about two dozen Lists for when I just want to see a certain type of Toot.

Things I miss:

• The artists I followed on Instagram. I'm now supporting two of them via Patreon or Liberapay because they also post here.
• The onslaught of dank memes.

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@LianaBrooks yes, and kind of. It helps with my social needs more than any other platform* has, and my mental health is a lot less negatively impacted by it than it was when my primary social media was Instagram, Tumblr, TikTok, or Twitter. But when it comes to organization, it's difficult to get involved with a lot of local projects/organizations, because there's exactly one that I know of that posts on the fediverse and for staying in touch with people I meet in person, it rarely works

[mage_of_chaos@mastodon.social]

@LianaBrooks

Yes it is I!

And yes, it's sorta working for me.

But I wish I had friends talking to me AND with me.

[raphaelmorgan@disabled.social]

@LianaBrooks all of these problems could be solved by more leftists making an effort to get away from big tech, so it's not the software itself that makes it not fully work for me. I blame Zuck

*I'm answering as if you said the fediverse, because in this case I don't feel it's worth distinguishing the social networking I get from Mastodon, GTS, Misskey, etc from each other. Technically Mastodon is still my main social media though