I don’t follow individuals, no one person is worth that, I don’t do that kind of allegiance or need to interact with a crowd of sycophant followers. So that eliminates a lot of social media right away. Threads, substack, instagram, whatever. Not interested in individuals.

I was on reddit for over a decade. Towards the end the subs became…meaningless? Reposts, bots, hive mind, karma whoring, and generally if you weren’t first to post you got zero interaction at best, at worst someone just wanted to disagree with you and downvote. Ask a question and you were stupid for not knowing the answer. Not worth it, and them came all the API issues, forcing the app, getting rid of Victoria, quarantining some subs while letting shitholes like T_D carry on… death by little cuts.

I much prefer forum-like settings, where most everyone can participate with everything and the Fediverse offers that. So here I am. Yeah, it’s not perfect, defederating is a thing, some servers are ideologically heavyhanded, it has some similar issues with users and mods as the other place, but at least the stupid Karma whoring isn’t a compounding factor.

I still use some facebook groups for hobbies, they just don’t exist here or have zero activity. But that’s about it for my social media.