@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 There's other social media?

@LianaBrooks
#Mastodon is my only social media since Musk bought Twitter.
I cancelled #Insta at same time.
*edit Yes it works very well for me, so many interesting people and great #'s to follow.

@LianaBrooks
Yes, this is my main social media (no fb, no insta, no x) anything is deleted 2022finally - only exception currently is #linkedin for my business connections.
After I found my peers on Mastodon I never regretted the step - anyhow as always a fresh start is intense but expands own perspective in the long run!

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes

@LianaBrooks yes and absolutely!

@LianaBrooks

It's pretty much my only social media, besides some online forums. It works for me, but I'm not a heavy user.

@LianaBrooks 100%. I’ve only used Mastodon for around 4 years and haven’t looked back.

@LianaBrooks Me. I'm on here more than anywhere else.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes. People are overwhelmingly great to interact with. I’m long done with surveillance state/Fascist-controlled social media.

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes, for > 6 years and it's good for my mental health.

@LianaBrooks Yes and yes

@LianaBrooks yes & yes

@LianaBrooks yes + yes.

I also sporadically glance Pixelfed but that's it.

@LianaBrooks

Yes and yes. I have no social media presence outside of mastodon and I prefer it this way.

@LianaBrooks I was only on facebunk for a month during the pandemic and I ditched it pretty quickly because I felt kind of dirty after awhile. Very distasteful. I'm not sure if I'm getting much out of Mastodon. I have a feed of stuff I kind of like but, nobody I know is on it except one guy who doesn't post. I find it difficult to find people on it. I'll keep on it and it may change although I'm not sure social media is good for much. To be truthful, I don't know why people seem to like soc/med.

@LianaBrooks yeah, I don't remember what was the last straw but last January I finally deleted my (already disused & derelict) Facebook & Instagram accounts. I never got into Tiktok and left the musky Twitter with great haste, despite it being my last stronghold of "social media" still in heavy use. I had tried Bluesky for a bit but really only visited it like once a month until they decided to go with the age verification garbage and just left (can't even delete my account without accepting the new terms and I didn't care enough to pursue as I had barely any content in there anyway).

On the other hand the Fedi and my self-hosted Mastodon instance doesn't just align with my values and gives me full control I never head around my social media, it has also grown, bit by bit to a point where it absolutely can and does serve as my primary social media lifeline! It took some time but I couldn't be happier with it.

https://flaki.social/@flaki/116040038448859463