@LianaBrooks I've ended up ditching everything else. I have a Matrix account I still use from time to time, but it's mostly to talk to one person I have no other means to talk to I guess. (Everyone else just ignored me there. People really really do not like Matrix for some reason... I honestly don't quite get the hate, though I do agree it is hardly perfect.)
I do hate the character limits sometimes though. Even on an instance with a larger limit it's often holding me back. (Hey, communication is hard.) Well, it's still better than a certain commercial platform.
Thanks to the way hashtags are used here it has actually been kind of helpful to find some stuff I might not normally run across, so there's that, but I feel like I do see a lot less people.