I will say goodbye to this platform for now. After I hardly posted anything between November and the end of January for health reasons and didn't miss it, I said I'd try it for a month and then I'll decide.

I had been having problems with the platform for a long time and had shifted my activities more to Twitter because there was more to my interests there. What interests me is hacking, electronics, science, retrocomputing or old technology in general and also a little politics.
The latter is quickly ticked off, on Mastodon there are mostly left-wing politics and people who confirm in circles that they are right. Even though I have the same opinion in most cases, it's too shallow for me. I want to hear other opinions, have my own questioned and learn new things. This is not possible here because there is actually no discourse. I like diversity, also or especially in terms of content and opinions.
I haven't posted much about retro computers or electronics in the last year, although I always had a lot of fun sharing repairs or providing background information. At first I only had negative feedback when I posted new additions to my collection, later on almost every post where I showed some exotic hardware. Some little brats flooded my DMs and kept saying that I should check my privileges before I bring something like that. I found this strange, especially when it came to repairs, because 75% or more of the devices were not mine, but from others. I think they just hit their heads hard. People like that poison the platform so you don't want to be here anymore. By the way, this never happened to me on Twitter.
I belong to the generation that grew up without social media and that has a life outside of it. If social media is an enrichment of my life, then I like to use it, but I don't see mastodon as such. It's a waste of time for me and for months I've actually only been posting out of a kind of sense of duty to support an alternative platform.

That's why I've put my account on autoexpire for three months and won't contribute any further content for now. Maybe I'll post one or two event notices in the future.