Will #ScienceTwitter🐦 -> #ScienceMastodon🐘 work?

The response to this was massive & my #Mastodon has gone from a quiet void to a science party in just 3 days!

Many are worried about servers, network effects & losing followers

Follow these tricks to make it work for you! 🧵

1. Find your friends on #Mastodon 👯👯

If you want your followers to find you, put your #Mastodon handle in your Twitter bio, otherwise this doesn't work!

Go to http://fedifinder.glitch.me & insert your handles

It will create a csv of #Mastodon handles of who you follow on Twitter

Then go to #Mastodon > Preferences > Import&Export > Import

Select Merge, not Overwrite ‼️

Then upload, and you're done!

Clearly, we'll need to do this several times in the coming weeks as people trickle into #Mastdon. Again, put your #Mastodon handle in the Twitter bio!

2. Sync your Twitter & #Mastodon account 🔁

Many won't want to give up Twitter yet (or ever), but doing 2 platforms is challenging

There's a simple tool to cross-post: https://moa.party 🎉

Everything you post on #Mastodon will show on Twitter & vice-versa 🤩

3. Choosing servers 🖥️

The server you choose doesn't matter - it's all connected. So I don't agree with arguments that this will limit discussion to an "in-group" - there's no difference to Twitter

If you would like to switch servers later on ➡️ https://bit.ly/3flG3oh

If you'd like to be on a science server, there are options:
🔹http://mstdn.science
🔹http://fediscience.org
🔹http://scicomm.xyz
🔹http://scholar.social

If you haven't set up your account, check this thread on the first steps 👇
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RT @d_brueckner
There's been lots of talk on moving #ScienceTwitter to another platform

As scientists, we should make informed decisions & not accept status quo - so what are the options? I checked out open-sou…
https://twitter.com/d_brueckner/status/1586720947704299520

4. Follow preprint bots 🤖

We'll have to wait for journals to join us (@eLife @mbeisen we're waiting for you 💚) but arXiv and biorXiv bots are already there!

🔹@arxiv_physics
🔹@arxiv_bio
🔹@bioRxiv_biophys (thanks to @JoscelynEtienne)

5. Mobile apps 📳

The web app is working fine for me, but there are apps you can choose from. Apparently the best are
🔹iOS: Toot!
🔹Android: @Fedilab_app or http://tusky.app

or check http://joinmastodon.org/apps