I would like to get more into Mastodon because I like that it's decentralized. I'm just feeling very dismayed about social media at this point.

For now. I'm putting more of my time into my blog. Which isn't a "platform" by most people's standard but it is *my* platform.



Yeah, I hear ya. I really liked Twitter.



Not sure what you mean by "private and personal" but you can lock your account, you know. That makes it a kind of "invite only" thing.



How so? I thought is was a great way to have exchanges with people. I especially liked that it made it feel like everyone was equally accessible (assuming their account wasn't locked). I could tweet to a celebrity or politician, for example. Whether they read it is another story...



I have a Reddit account but I haven't used it much. I thought about directing my energy there after Twitter but, again. don't want to do this if I end up banned because someone just decides they want to exercise their power. For fun.



I thought about joining the site but some of the TOS was too ambiguous or suspicious. I asked them about it and they never replied. I even tried sending them a message on Twitter, privately and publicly. Crickets. Took that to be a bad sign about what I suspected about their TOS.



I never joined here either. Shortly after it started a woman was telling people that her boyfriend stole the idea and the money she had to get it started. I can't say it if was true but the possibility that I'd be making money for some shitty dude didn't make me want to join. As time has gone on the periodic issues with the site had confirmed, in my mind, that the woman was probably telling the truth and that I don't want to have anything to do with it.



It seems difficult to find a platform that isn't run by or owned by unethical people. So you always feel like you're their pawn, making them dirty money, and always at their mercy.

Mastodon might be the best one out there right now. But someone still runs the instance you're on and can boot you at any time.

At least with my blog, I'm paying for the space on the server and it's in the best interest of my host to work things out before they kick me off.