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Mastodon Migration

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration
Check out the new Mastodon Migration site for Quick Start, News, Guides and other resourses:
medium.com/@mastodonmigration/

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Wobbly Magoo

@Herring1967 I found this explanation very useful when I got here a few days ago.

I wish I could remember who boosted it, so I could thank them again.

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Anil Seth

My first post on Mastodon: please take part in The Perception Census - help us advance research into perceptual diversity, and learn about your own powers of perception too: perceptioncensus.dreamachine.w

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grischa
@wilhelm
Yes. I can do macroblogging with my Pleroma too. I talked about "software flavours". But that was not my point, what software does macro- and what microblogging.. 🤔
@helpers @heluecht
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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@DrK

It makes me really happy to hear that. Me and many others here have committed a lot of effort to try to have a community mature enough to talk and not fight, to be respectful and decent without the need for much if any censorship (there is always the occasional bad actor, but its rare).

Myself and im sure my fellow long-time qoto members all appreciate very much hearing that you feel safe and at home here, and most important, you are happy to be here.

@arinbasu @SteveZissou

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Codex OS

RT @RobertHaisfield@twitter.com

Anyone have a good explanation of Mastodon's federation, from a user perspective? Like how the different instances interact, how users go from instance to instance, that sort of thing

🐦🔗: twitter.com/RobertHaisfield/st

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

@arinbasu

I am obviously biased but I think we have hands down one of the best servers on the fediverse. Drama is very rare here and when someone comes who does tend to start it they never last long. Amazing for an instance which doesnt limit the topics we are allowed to talk about and generally encourages free speech (hate speech not being free speech).

Its the first time I’ve ever seen a social media community actually work and get a long. I love it here.

@SteveZissou

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Steve Zissou

@arinbasu wow, it’s true!

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🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

A reminder for anyone new to mastodon who might not be happy with some of the racist and bad actors out there on other servers... Just import the fediblock list to your personal blocks and you will be safe from the vast majority of bad actors.
QT: qoto.org/@STORM/10926005683000

𝑺𝑻𝑶𝑹𝑴⛈️  
I took all the domains from https://fediblock.neocities.org/ block list and put it in a csv file that can be imported so you can block all hateful ...
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Steve Zissou

The QOTO server gives you 65535 characters per toot, which makes around 36 standard printing pages :blobcatscared:

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eLife

An #introduction to eLife's new Mastodon page!

We're an #OpenAccess not-for-profit journal that publishes and reviews #research in the life and biomedical sciences.

We want to improve the way research is practised and shared in part by working with early-career researchers #ECR and supporting #OpenSource technology.

We also just announced our new publishing model that we hope will tackle an overreliance on journal titles and publishing decisions as quality measures for science and scientists.

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Mastodon Migration

#twittermigration #mastodonmigration

To help with finding users to Follow, here are three curated lists:

The Walt List (Walt Shaub’s list of prolific posters — mostly US politics) >>> docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

Notable Twitter users on the Fediverse >>> fedified.com/

Large list of journalists on Mastodon >>> docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

Mastodon Migration User List Link >>> medium.com/@mastodonmigration/

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Arindam Basu

Old man yelling at the cloud about fediverse new entrants, ignore ... ;-) 

@hugh
writes,

“the basic principles have mostly held up to now: the culture and technical systems were deliberately designed on principles of consent, agency, and community safety. Whilst there are definitely improvements that could be made to Mastodon in terms of moderation tools and more fine-grained control over posting, in general these are significantly superior to the Twitter experience. It’s hardly surprising that the sorts of people who have been targets for harrassment by fascist trolls for most of their lives built in protections against unwanted attention when they created a new social media toolchain. It is the very tools and settings that provide so much more agency to users that pundits claim make Mastodon “too complicated”.”

See hughrundle.net/home-invasion/

This is an important point of difference between a centralised corporate controlled social media that many are familiar with; they seem to have issues finding too complicated.

On the one hand, if they were to take it easily, post status updates, follow others, and step by step, the experience of fediverse for a newcomer would be a lot smoother. Instead, many people want to replicate their birdsite/twitter experience on and get frustrated.

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web.immers.space/

Is where federated metaverse lives, experiencing the metaverse in the same way we are experiencing connected communication here.

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David K

It’s interesting that the biggest communication challenge facing Mastodon communities is explaining that it’s basically a protocol and a network of independent, interconnected servers, which is what the Web, e-mail, even DNS and most of the fundamental services we use on the internet are, and always were.
It just illustrates just how much ‘Big Tech’ proprietary social media platforms swallowed up and walled off, if it’s now difficult to explain what the internet actually is!

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Feditips alert: how to find twitter friends here 

How do I find whom to follow?

Is a frequently asked question from people who are migrating from the birdsite, aka twitter.

fedifinder.glitch.me/

is a fantastic app to find people:

  • People whom you followed on Twitter, many of them are on Mastodon as well (one or other servers or instances). Use this tool.
  • First connect your twitter handle or account name (it is safe to give them your twitter handle)
  • The tool then fetches which of the twitter accounts you followed are also on one or another mastodon instance
  • copy the accounts (in the form of @accountname@instance.tld
  • Paste it in the search box. You will see a plus sign next to the names and accounts that will be fetched. Click on the plus sign
  • You can follow the old twitter friend now
  • You can also see who among your followers on twitter are on one or another instances

Remember to buy @Luca lunch!

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Ashley Winter MD :verified:

No physician who tries to put someone down for their disability should be held on a pedestal. Thank you to the good people of Pennsylvania.

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Call for Carpentries instructors and trainers 

carpentries.org/

Who is a instructor or trainer?
Let's put together a spreadsheet.
Please reply to this post and let's put together our group.

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Anil

It’s funny, many of the “what you need to know about Mastodon” or “how to learn about the fediverse” pieces are focused on the technology and the implementation, when the hardest thing for people to understand about this context, if they’re used to traditional social media & tech, is that here we have an expectation of _consent_. Consent if you want to be included in a conversation, consent about being amplified, consent in the form of CWs on topics that you want to manage, etc. That’s it! 🎯

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হুতোম প্যাঁচা

লে অফের আসল কারণ, কোনো শিল্পেই, ব্যবসা বাঁচানো নয়। লিখলেন প্রতীক #twitter #byjus

nagorik.net/opinion/rethinkin-

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