Like so many others here, I recently passed my one-year anniversary of joining Mastodon. It's been a joy.
I have slightly more than half of the followers here that I had on the deadbird site when I stopped posting there -- and conservatively, 10 times the genuine engagement in boosts, favorites, and replies with the Mastodon account.
My thanks to @Gargron and his team for their hard work.
(Advice: If you aren't donating to your instance, please do so.)