shallow social substance

I've spent the last couple of days wondering if I should sign up to Mastodon. Not sure why I spend so much time deliberating, it's as simple as signing up on the sever they recommend. Something always stops me though. I've removed the majority of social media now, I deactivated my LinkedIn a couple of weeks back and I tried signing up to Bluesky (again) and managed a whole week before I deleted it. It's a frustrating loop. The more I think about it, the more I think it's the 'social' side that bothers me, the whole liking, commenting, posting1. I considered it being fatigue or not wanting to share my life with the people who aren't actively in it, but I think it's that I don't much like the 'social' side of people. I don't mean I actively dislike everyone but I'm just not interested in the majority of what they say on 'social' media. Maybe that's because algorithms have decided what to show me (although my experience with Bluesky suggests that's not it) or maybe it's because I prefer…