Noting your concerns with Mastodon, I am wondering if you think Micro.blog fixes any of this, especially with its use of feeds and webmentions etc
💬 I’m going dark on social media for the rest of 2018
Ben Werdmüller (werd.io)I’m cutting out Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Mastodon completely. (Mastodon doesn’t suffer from the organizational issues I described above, but by aping commercial social networking services, it suffers from the same design flaws.) As of tonight, I won’t be logging into those platforms on any device, and I won’t receive comments, likes, reshares, etc, on any of them.
You raise some interesting questions to consider in moving away from social media, especially the point about staying in contact. I have tried to be more mindful of my interactions this year. RSS has definitely been an important part in this (that is how I found this post).