EduCrave @EduCrave@qoto.org

Let’s try this again. Where you at #fediverse? Boosts welcome so we can get the best sample size.

The difference between Twitter and Mastodon right now is stark.

Twitter: Tons of stochastic retweets and "people follow this person" algorithm nonsense. This only started happening in the last 2 weeks.

Mastodon: Only content from the people I follow!

I almost thought Mastodon was broken for a little while until I realized... the people I followed just hadn't posted in a few hours!

Twitter nervously tries to fill that silence with the algorithm to keep you engaged, while Mastodon is like:

The Perception Census

15 to 20 minutes survey

help @anilkseth & team advance research into perceptual diversity, and learn about your own powers of perception too:

https://mastodon.online/@anilkseth/109315955368351759

https://perceptioncensus.dreamachine.world/

@neuro @neuroscience
#neuroscience
#neurosciencemigration
#neurodon

And now that I've walked around the joint with folks and verified we're ship-shape, please welcome some Internet Archive roles and users to the Mastodon, including the official IA account: @internetarchive as well as founder @brewsterkahle - more folks will be coming online through us soon.

I am going to try to find time this weekend to add in several new features to QOTO, fix a few small bugs, and if we aare REALLY lucky and things go well I might release a new version of QOTO this weekend (no promises though my life is CRAZY right now, hard to predict).

Okay this might be a long post

One thing that I realised is making #twittermigration harder for people to switch is because the whole concept can feel daunting & overwhelming for non-tech savvy people.

With Twitter to them it was straight forward and easy to find topics they enjoy but with mastodon its a bit different.
So if you’re new to mastodon or you want to introduce someone to mastodon here are some tips, useful sites & tools:

Tips:

• Choosing a home instance isn’t as importance as it seems, don’t overthink it. Yes moderation rules & policies may differ but they all have one thing in common: Be a decent human. You always have the option to migrate your account to a new instance.
• Toots (or posts if you think toots are cringe ) are what we call micro-blogging instead of tweets
• You’re supposed to “boost” AKA “reblog” toots that you like.Since Mastodon does not have an algorithm that surfaces toots that have been liked a lot, boosting is the best way to help spread stuff that you like, and to show appreciation. (credit to @orsvarn for this comment)
• Another way to fill your timeline with content you enjoy is to: Find other people with similar interests, follow them, favourite their posts, boost their posts, use hashtags. rinse, repeat. (credit to @garry)
• If you ever feel yourself getting sucked into arguments on the #Fediverse, you might want to take advantage of the instance mute/block feature!
  Instances tend to foster a culture, so if you find people from a specific site tend to be bothering you, muting/blocking that instance will keep other members of that community from bothering you as well.
• Finally do not share private/sensitive information via DMs on Mastodon. Direct Messages are not E2E. Keep it in mind

Useful tools & resources:

Twitodon - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
FediFinder- Similar to Twitodon
Fedi Tips - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
Fedi Directory - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
Trunk -Trunk allows you to mass-follow a bunch of people in order to get started with Mastodon or any other platform on the Fediverse
Fediverse.info -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
Mobile Apps:
Metatext for iOS
Tusky for Android

Lastly if you are interested in setting up your own instance you can learn via https://learnfoss.org/ its completely free and its made by the wonderful @stux

I apologize for the long post lol, just hope this helps anyones transition over