I never really liked Twitter, either, and joined Mastodon in 2019 for fun. I’m very active in it, now, as I have spent the time curating the stuff I want to see. I interact with watercolor artists, green technology enthusiasts, “good news” orgs, sustainability advocates, and travel photographers. It takes a bit of work to set up, first, but the biggest thing is to search keywords as hashtags and follow everyone you think you might like and interact often with them. You can always unfollow, later.
We visited in May and decided we are going to end up there. Already considering what we might be to do to make it happen.
One of my older ones was “WeDontHaveWifi” because people would say “what’s your wifi?” and we would tell them that and sometimes they would say “ohh, ok” and not ask for the password, haha. Password, incidentally, was “whatPassword?”