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I left twitter without signing up for mastodon. Mastodon seems kind of lame, and user-hostile and I don't expect it to ever be mainstream.
Oh really? What other options do you recommend?
Twitter being a dumpster fire doesn't mean we need to find a new dumpster
I signed up on mastodon a year or two ago, and it's the most positive experience I've had online in a very long time. It's fun, like MySpace was in the beginning.
Mastodon is interesting because it isn't one thing, it's many unique communities that talk to each other. My home server is full of people like me, it's a strong community where people feel safe and comfortable. However, most of my follows are from outside my server. It's an environment where I can be my actual, genuine self, which is a nice experience these days.
I think mastodon has captured the spirit of what social media was originally meant to be. Without the pressure of trying to extract money from your users, the users are more free to express themselves. It's the way things used to be before "don't be evil" went down the toilet.
Mastodon is good, and whether or not it "replaces" Twitter (which is not and never was the goal), it's going to stick around for a long time.
I canned my Twitter account the day I first heard of the pending change in ownership Not for some grand reason... I just realized I never used it or benefited from it I won't be moving to mastodon but it's more that I'm tired of the format than anything specific to the platform
I'm actively trying to work myself away from 'short form' content. YT Shorts, TikTok, image memes - that kind of thing.
I don't like how my attention span has wavered over the last decade or so, and I feel a lot of this has to do with it.
HN/Reddit are still here for the time being, as they at least have articles with some depth... and replies are afforded enough characters for actual conversation
Under this light, I'm left feeling that Twitter/Mastodon are just an engagement machine, bare minimum to have something to engage with to move 'currency' around
I want to be better off from my time here, and I don't think I have
I moved. UX is not as bad as expected. All info/people i am interested in have also moved except a few who switched to substack instead. Twitter is still quite a show but i suspect people will grow tired.
I've been feeling burned out on social media for a while even before Elon hit Twitter. I have very few real connections on Twitter so it's just been a consumption platform for me. Considering to let it die and take a break from things. I'm not eager to go chasing content creators to various different platforms. I need more platforms to watch as much as I need a swift kick to the head.
A nice benefit is that many of the 'big on twitter' scientists whose professional self worth is tied to their follower count have stayed put.