Re: Definitions of spam are tricky
I've moved from Twitter to Mastodon (the decentralized alternative to Twitter) about two months ago and love it.
It's amazing how some technical differences (the deliberate lack of an equivalent to 'Quote Tweets' for instance, or the absence of algorithms that push for clashes, pile-ons and radicalization to drive engagement metrics) make for a much more fruitful experience. You can have polite debate and disagreements without instant shouting matches or accusations of being Nazi or woke. I have rediscovered how nice it can be to exchange ideas with people you don't know personally.
Give it a shot, though make sure to spend the first week following a bunch of people (even if you unfollow them again a week later, at least they will have helped you discover more interesting accounts) because there is no algorithm pushing you to follow the usual suspects so it might appear empty at first. If there are certain Twitter accounts you would miss, such as your local hobby shop, then there are ways to have their tweets fed to your Mastodon timeline.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
