I think it might depend on your audience. If you're followed by a lot of tech-focused men, Mastodon will almost certainly be *garbage*.
I'm not in that category, so it's been much better for me 🤷🏻♂️. And there's almost no risk of having a far-right instigator quote tweet you to 250k followers, meaning you need to lock your account down for a month, for instance.
But God forbid you accidentally forget alt text, or mention an operating system that isn't the Correct version of Linux...