Is Mastodon "toxic?"
I’ve heard from two people in the past 24 hours who have dropped Mastodon, citing negativity. One said it’s “pretty fucking toxic.”
Meanwhile, I’m focusing more of my blogging and social media on Mastodon (and Tumblr too, but I’m talking about Mastodon today).
I’m taking a break from posting to Bluesky because I don’t get enough activity there to be worth posting to.
And I am taking a break from posting to Facebook — hopefully permanently — because I don’t like Meta and I don’t like the way Facebook operates.
Different people have different experiences, and my social media profile is so low nowadays that if Masto is toxic, I may simply be too small to target.
One of the reasons I chose Masto over Bluesky is that I was able to migrate my account to a server, hachyderm.io that permits posts of up to 2,263 characters. I hate short character limits — 140 characters, 280, 300, 500. I have more than that to say.
Here’s my link page, where you can find my links to Mastodon, Tumblr, etc.