@LianaBrooks Yep, it's enough. I can connect with local people and far away people who share interests. It's true there's a lack of diversity, and that makes it less engaging for me, but I view that as a plus because there are things I'd like to do outside of cyberspace, and this being somewhat less engaging is a feature not a bug.

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

I left imgur for here

@LianaBrooks yes and yes

@LianaBrooks primary? It's my *only* social media (unless you count Signal, Matrix, or email).

Once I got settled on Mastodon, I poisoned and deleted my last remaining social accounts.

I have zero regrets.

@LianaBrooks Yes to both; It is the only 'social media' account I still have (other than chat apps), I've deleted all the others.

@LianaBrooks @User47 Yes and yes.

@LianaBrooks@mastodon.online I've been on the Fedi, primarily not mastodon, for several years now and do not have a social media presence outside of the Fediverse.

I like it here.

I am not a person who would normally be targeted for harassment so my experience has been pretty pleasant, but I know there's weird ass gatekeepers around this that seem to actively want to drive away non-white and queer folks - a thing that can be largely invisible to anyone but the target because of the structure of Mastodon/ActivityPub. That's a real big problem for this to become A Thing in the culture - for it to get that far, I'd need to be able to invite my MIL and wife and have them have completely different, but very pleasant experiences rather than the current experience it is now.

@LianaBrooks Only and yes

@LianaBrooks yep and more or less. I'm still missing a lot of my local community here though.

@LianaBrooks I haven't actually decided what it's supposed to be doing for me.

@LianaBrooks My one and only and I’m quite pleased with it.

@LianaBrooks yup to both

@LianaBrooks not my primary social media platform but it hasnt given me any problems in the nearly 4 years ive been on it

It's harder to find the types of accounts I am interested in following[...]

I'm wondering if you have tried following/searching by tags related to your interests. That's how I usually find my people.

CC: @LianaBrooks@mastodon.online

@LianaBrooks it's my only social media and I am very happy with it.

@Tiffany same! using @Tusky solved the first problem for me. The second problem is much harder I think…

@LianaBrooks

@LianaBrooks
Yes and yes!

@alice @LianaBrooks SAME.

@LianaBrooks
Yes, and what do you mean by "working for you"?

@iwein @Tusky @LianaBrooks Maybe I will try Tusky! And I will wish us both luck in finding a sense of connection. I’m really lucky to have connections outside of social media - a couple book clubs, and I facilitate a couple peer groups and am doing some collective narrative projects. But I still really miss the feeling I used to have in social media spaces, that felt like casually running across friends in public space. Maybe it will come with time.