@hoaxeye I took a big hit on followers and traffic and - more importantly - lost touch with a ton of people I wanted to stay in contact with. I'm sad and angry that everything played out as it did, but I have zero regrets about dropping Musk's Nazi Bar like a flaming turd. I never relied on Twitter for anything career or money-related so it was easier for me to walk away. I can't begrudge artists and authors who hitched their economic wagon to Twitter and can't afford to leave; I could so I did. Mastadon has not been a big change because I started using Twitter in 2009 or so, long before the cursed algorithmic feeds - manually building a feed by following a few interesting people and recursing through the interesting people they RT just seems natural. Lack of search, history, QTs, and actual non-public DMs are all irritating but not enough to push me to Bluesky or Yet Another Investor Owned Cesspit-to-Be. Account portability makes up for all of that and more, at least for now.