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](https://twitodon.com/) - Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
[FediFinder](https://fedifinder.glitch.me/)- Similar to Twitodon
[Fedi Tips](https://fedi.tips/) - an informal, unofficial guide for non-technical people who want to use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse
[Fedi Directory](https://fedi.directory) - A human-curated small selection of accounts to spice up your timeline.
[Trunk](https://communitywiki.org/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](https://fediverse.info/explore/people) -growing list of people and topics can help you discover mutual interests with people around the world
**Mobile Apps:**
[Metatext for iOS 
](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/metatext/id1523996615)
[Tusky for Android 
](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.keylesspalace.tusky&hl=en&gl=USt)
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 
@nickg true but the only instances i block are pedo and racist ones
@STORM Super helpful, thanks!
@GiantRectangle my instance allows 65535 character limit 
@STORM Ah, I see. Thanks again! :)
@STORM @orsvarn @garry @stux There's also an official mastodon app for android (also works on e). There are some differences between it and tusky, but neither is objectively better than the other in my opinion. More of a preference thing.
Neither app has as many features as the site tho. The site is mobile friendly so it can work on phones.
@LucillaPiccari @orsvarn @garry @stux yes on qoto.org
or directly the browser @STORM 
as mobile app!
@STORM Can i ask, is it one person that 'owns' the server you sign up with, ie they control if it gets turned off tomorrow?
@islander This is really useful
@STORM @melpomeneMel @MelpomeneMel
@STORM @orsvarn @garry @stux Thank you, that's very helpful and I'll check all these features out. I did overthink the home instance question at first, but it was relatively easy to find one where I thought I'd feel at home once I started looking through. People have been generally very helpful and welcoming towards us newcomers.
@orsvarn @garry @stux oops seems i didnt add credit to 5th tip. Credit goes to @realcaseyrollins