It’s not you. It’s me. (Taking a break from Mastodon)
I have for the most part very much enjoyed my experience on the Fediverse, and experts say that Mastodon is one of the components of the Fediverse.
I entered young adulthood during the rise of MySpace and eventually Facebook. I enjoyed my experience on both of those platforms… until I didn’t. At the time I quit both, they felt like stale husks of the fun, weird places they’d once been for me.
Twitter became my jam around 2014 or so, mostly as a lurker (and eventually with a few thousand followers), but as a queer lady in a local community with a vibrant Twitter presence, it was fun… until it wasn’t.
In 2022 I discovered Mastodon and the Fediverse, largely through a fantastic local community server. Because a good chunk of familiar folks were there on my local server, it felt like home. And for the most part, still does- that local Mastodon community is incredible, and I’m beyond sad to be walking away from it.
I’ve been here for two years, and in that time, have learned quite a bit of how the Fediverse works, how Mastodon works, and most importantly, how I work with social media. And I’m becoming increasingly convinced of one thing- me and “microblogging” don’t actually work well together, and it’s no longer fun.
