@LianaBrooks yes on both counts for me.

@LianaBrooks

I've used Mastodon for years, and for the last few years it's been my only social media.

I'm very happy with it.

@LianaBrooks

yes! I left twitter many years ago (pre-covid), then kicked fb I think three years ago, & instagram last year.

couldn't stand every third post I was seeing being an ad or "promoted." I would meet up with friends & acquaintances and realized none of their posts had been shown to me & I felt out of the loop DESPITE being connected. no thanks. love it here

@LianaBrooks I think I spend more time on my three #Mastodon servers than I spend on others.Not actually counting though.

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

@LianaBrooks Yes, although I also spend time on BlueSky. It's been working fine; I haven't noticed any technical issues recently.

@LianaBrooks

Yes and yes.

@LianaBrooks @robyn yes and yes since day 1

@LianaBrooks I do Mastodon and LinkedIn (only work related) but spend a lot more time here, so would call it "primary" and very much working for me.

@LianaBrooks

I am currently, and I like it fine at the moment.

@LianaBrooks Yes, and yes

@LianaBrooks yes and very yes

I love all of it, and I learned a lot from the communities that welcomed me.
Best feature: have separate pseudonym accounts on different servers, partitioning professional life from friends from activism from private life from exploratory and intellectual curiosity. Tusky client allows jumping from one account to the other as easy as switching timelines.

With my accounts I mostly read and boost, with minor interactions, but I get news, super interesting commentary, and links to amazing blog posts.

I have read that the Fediverse hasn't been as welcoming or not even safe for many non-(white-cis-male) people, I do my best to not (involuntarily) add to the problem, and actually help when I can. All good-manners I learnt here.

@LianaBrooks Mastodon is my one and only social media. I had pretty much abandoned social media entirely for a few years before finding and joining Mastodon. It is without a doubt the best experience I've ever had on any social media platform.

Mastodon is not a rage factory as all the other social media platforms were...it is a home.

(Don't get me wrong, there's PLENTY of rage at the news articles being shared...but not about or because of the platform itself.)

@LianaBrooks yeah. I like recognizing people and knowing a little about their lives. Other platforms are on the busy side for me.

@LianaBrooks after getting kicked off Facebook more than a week ago I have returned to Mastodon.

I feel that I making new connections and friends but it is a different community to that which I had on Fb. One reason is that my real life friends are not here.

I want to use Mastodon as a micro-blogging platform and use as a base for my sharing and spread a link to my daily Masto blogging distributed by email.

@LianaBrooks

Yes, and yes.

@LianaBrooks
Yes.
Well enough

@LianaBrooks yep, and it works really well for me.

@LianaBrooks Sure.

@LianaBrooks yes.