@Gargron Mastodon has enabled me to return to social media in a way my data will be respected.

@Gargron i've made so many friends here because i can actually talk to people instead of getting buried by algorithms that reward meaningless numbers over actual interaction

@Gargron I'm personally addicted to Mastodon, for me it's like if Facebook or Twitter had a friendly version— where I can discuss things with people around the world about every single thing they love. If there's a subreddit for everything, of course there's also a Mastodon instance for everything: I've got one profile for sharing art, another one for casual conversation and another one for politics.

@Gargron Honestly I do think that this platform is better and enables much finner tuned control over what you see and who you interact with. I've found more cool and nice people on here compared to the contemporary counterpart. I've also experienced far less abusive interactions and the moderation teams tend to actually care instead of being robots.

I'm just not sure I want my name on a testimonial page. :-/

@Gargron @Gargron I enjoy Mastodon because it is fancy, sweet, comfy and lots of fabulous friends! :ablobcatheartsqueeze: 😌

@Gargron
I shouldn't have to pay to say what I want.

I shouldn't have to pay to have my voice heard.

#Freespeech is #freedom.

It should be and should stay free.

That's why I much prefer Mastodon over other similar platforms.

Having to pay to be heard is a form of #censorship.

@Gargron Very new here, just started my account. How do you go about finding people and communities on here?

@Gargron it has helped me to escape the commercial AI driven nightmare of other social media! And also gave me a fun project building my instance. Best of all, it has the endorsement of @annie

@Gargron x is not y and mastodon has cats.

@Gargron Platforms such as Mastodon are good for exploring lesser known platforms and seeing if they are better or at least equal to what is very well known.

I think that the 500 characters on Mastodon already make it as good or better than the likes of Twitter because Twitter only allows 160 characters so one must choose carefully what they type or make a picture with text as a possible alternative.

@Gargron In deed the way to go! For example I signed up in 2018 but never got busy in here. Now had a reason take a look again after few years and I set up my profile a bit right away as might come regularly.

Mastodon has come ways and looks good to go next phase = bigger and better! 👍 🐬