@mmasnick
Talking only of my experience, my use of Mastodon is most of the way caught up to Twitter in terms of fulfillment. Enough close friends are here. Enough parasocial friends are here.

The worst drawback thus far is a big gap in the journalists, bloggers, & regular folk I followed, especially BIPOC folk.

A few Twitter holdouts like Gaslit Nation & Rewire Newsgroup I subscribe to their podcast or support their Patreon. I miss reading their day to day posts, though.