Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

@kkstuppy
Yes, understandable. If you want to stay up with your favourite twitter accounts (called birdsite), you want to use the following
https://beta.birdsite.live/
That way, you can read your favourite twitter account posts here. 🙂

@AmberWavesofFlame
Another point might be to download a copy of your existing data and not share much on twitter. You can always share via Mastodon. You never know when they will charge you for twitter severance and data download.

@kkstuppy
Kristen, if you pan out to the larger #fediverse , of which this is a part, you will find they are all over and in many 'instances'. You can read and interact with all of them, right from here (I e., You won't have to change instance). In order to find other instances see

https://fediverse.party

@PurpleOne
Welcome. Look forward to your interactions!

@peterdrake @Daboussi
Top tip advice from Peter.
Also, you can follow anyone from everywhere in the #fediverse. So, if you find one instance (like this one lonely for you), you can draw in content from everywhere and build a personalised experience of what you want to read and whom you want to follow. Check out this site named fediverse.party (https://fediverse.party) to explore, 🙂

Enjoy and look forward to hear more from you.

@bwbeach
Yes, great point.
As a matter of fact, this is perhaps the only #mastdon instance where we can exchange long form thoughts and discuss. Another +1

@hikenwoodwork
Great to know you. We share several common interests!

@bwbeach
Welcome and hello Brian. An advantage of qoto over other #mastodon instances is it allows you more than 500 characters to express yourself.
You can also follow anyone everywhere in the #fediverse in this one account. The range is mind bogglingly massive and amazing. With respect to richness and variety of content in #fediverse, twitter (referred to as birdsite) stands nowhere in comparison. Think of twitter as just one other node equivalent.
So from the comfort of your single qoto instance, you can subscribe streaming videos, link sharing sites, discussions, besides twitter like flow of comments, notes and links. Besides, you can pull in your favourite tweets as well and share content everywhere.

@cherry@eocene.epochal.quest @TJ_dacks

Tusky is a very good stable app.

I curate a site for papers and blogs

https://lemmy.ml/c/papers_blogs

All of my fediverse instances in one post:
Fediverse is this complex network of many servers and many services and apps. Mastodon is a large well-formed server that looks like Twitter and indeed if you use halcyon front end, it will really look like you are working in twitter. You can also use pinafore front end to streamline the user interface. For a deep dive, check https://fediverse.party/


Besides Mastodon, there are other services and apps that are worth considering and several of them serve specific purposes. While mastodon, pleroma, and misskey serve similar purposes, i.e, allow text based, photo and video sharing and discussion among the various members of the servers and servers themselves, there are others that are more specialised, although they too, have the social aspects built in. Among them,

Peertube is similar to Youtube
Pixelfed is similar to Instagram
Funkwhale is similar to Spotify (allows music streaming and podcast)
Here are the lists of several instances.

mastodon.nzoss.nz (arin_basu@mastodon.nzoss.nz)
mastodon.social (arin_basu@mastodon.social)
qoto.org (arinbasu@qoto.org)
scholar.social (arinbasu1@scholar.social)
arinbasu1@fosstodon.org
nixnet.social (arinbasu@nixnet.social) This is a Pleroma site
mk.nixnet.social (arinbasu@mk.nixnet.social) This is a Misskey site
Lemmy.ml (arinbasu)
Pixelfed (arinbasu1@pixelfed.social)
Peertube(arindam_basu@tube.tchncs.de)
Funkwhale (arinbasu) Music site
https://audio.liberta.vip/@arinbasu/#channels
Outerheaven.club (arinbasu) Pleroma site