@andypiper

I'm particularly looking after @andypiper 's talk. I'm here on Mastodon as part of the mass November Migration last year. Given his long time working with #Twitter (as it was) and his role supporting #DevRel at Mastodon, his talk on "community everywhere" should give more of us the confidence to imagine and thrive in this new world.

#lifeaftertwitter #twittermigration

@BBC5Live Welcome! So glad you are here! I have followed this account and look forward to reading your news updates.

Thanks for being a news organization that can imagine life after Twitter.

#lifeaftertwitter

@shoq

My favorite thing is that my feed is stable: I see exactly who I meant to follow. I can't say I was a heavy twitter user to begin with, but I did give it a try for a couple months last year. It was fun at first, but the posts I was seeing slowly diverged away from neuroscience onto some strange combination of aspirational productivity, business advice, and doomsday forecasts about AI. I don't even know what I did to precipitate this!

I like that I can still discover new research and perspectives within the fediverse, but the feed is a product of my intentional interactions, rather than some nebulous computation. I also see a lot more of the everyday life kind of posts here, which makes me happy! It takes some pressure off of posting. There's room for activism here, but also room to just be chill and silly.

#LifeAfterTwitter

@shoq
I started blogging in Y2K, and there are people I’d gotten to web-RSS-know and read in those early days. But life and big algorithm kinda pushed us into different corners.

The Nov migration brought a lot of reconnection.

As Facebook brought people back in contact w schoolmates we’d lost touch with, #Fediverse brought me back in touch w people from early blogging days.

Like class reunions after 20+ years, there’s more commonality & less judgement.
#LifeAfterTwitter

@shoq The level of discourse on Mastodon is so much better but the vibe is very different from Twitter.

Mastodon is like a cocktail party where you can chat with lots of interesting people you didn’t know before vs. Twitter is like a basketball arena where if you’re lucky the TV camera will pan by you and you’ll see yourself on the jumbotron occasionally but the ability to actually make meaningful discourse is limited.

… and I can edit posts anytime I want.
#LifeAfterTwitter

@joyannreid Welcome home! Since we know each other personally, it's been really hard to not nag you to post here more. But I really wanted your passion to learn more about this place to be driven solely by your well documented allergy to Nazis, while supremacists, and tyrants :)

#LifeAfterTwitter