[mmastrac]

The Elon acquisition forcing me to finally break my Twitter habit was awesome. Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there. Mastodon has been positive in other ways - I'm posting less there than I did on Twitter, and the people there are generally less toxic overall (though I've been carefully curating who I follow this time around).

I think we'll continue to see social media fracture and federate as time goes on, and this will turn out to be a net benefit for society. For now, my mental health is definitely better.

[MuffinFlavored]

> Whenever I go back, I started to wonder why I spent so much time there

What about same question posed to yourself (and myself), but for this website (Hacker News) instead of Twitter? :)

[WaffleIronMaker]

Personally, I find the average quality of discussion on Hacker News to be much higher than the average quality of discussion on Twitter. There are fewer incentives for flame wars, and fewer bots trying to get me to buy random T-shirts.

[spoils19]

A lot of that can definitely be chalked up to the excellent moderation by dang! It's the last real place on the internet for me, a line saloon in the wild west if you will.

[MuffinFlavored]

I don't disagree, I just wonder if you (and myself) should spend as much time as we do on this site :)

[layer8]

Let’s hope for some onerous SPA overhaul of HN somewhere down the line. ;)

[arcticbull]

I was also terminally online at twitter, and before the holidays I just dropped it. Got tired of all the complaining about how it was going to collapse, and my experience continually just got worse week over week. It's given me a lot of my time back!