Using and liking Mastodon

When I dropped Twitter X I didn't miss the ongoing toxic waste dump.  I found a great replacement called Mastodon.  It does take a bit of work and time to get started, but I find it a friendly place.  I see what I want to see, I follow those who I want to follow and it isn't a spam filled, advertising filled site overflowing with hatred, bigotry and intolerance.  The administrators keep an eye on things and when spam does appear it quickly gets removed.  

There is a growing community of people who are willing to share, technical experts and media personalities who regularly post. 

If you are tired of X I suggest that you check it out.

I am not missing Twitter.

It has been over a year since I left Twitter and I don't miss it.  I have been using mastodon and it has been a much more enjoyable experience.  I am not subjected to spam, scam, advertising and hate.  It takes a bit to get accustomed to, but I have a wonderful feed with people who post and share information that I find interesting or makes me think.

In Linux there are clients (I am using TUBA at this time in MX Linux as a flatpack), Android has clients (I am using Trunks which is cross platform - Android & IOS).  It is also accessible via your browser as I haven't found a client there that works as well as the browser version.

Deleted my Twitter account

 With the continual gong show of Twitter and the fact that it is much less than stable I finally deleted the account.

First thing I did was to request a full archive of my account.  After I downloaded and verified it was good I then asked to have it deactivated.  Following that I purged the Twitter clients from my phone, Chromebook and the third party client in Linux.

I was getting tired of seeing all of the hate groups and bigots getting reinstated and then posting with hatred, misinformation and intolerance.  Then there were the times I couldn't do anything as there was another outage.  The final reason as #MeNoSulk was in full bully mode and I don't want to take part in that type of social media site.  I created the account back in 2012, but it just isn't worth it.  I created an account in Mastodon and there is a learning curve, but the site is a lot more friendly.