Evan Prodromou

So, I used @pruvisto 's Debirdify to get the Mastodon addresses of everyone I follow on Twitter.

Then, I downloaded those addresses as a CSV, which seems to be in a format used for interchanging AP addresses in Mastodon instances.

Then, I went to Preferences -> Import and Export -> Import, selected "Import Type" to be "Following list", chose the CSV file I'd downloaded from Debirdify as "Data", selected "Merge", then the "Upload" button.

It worked well! ~14% of my Twitter follows imported.

Nov 12, 2022 at 11:39pmWeb
Show threadEvan ProdromouNov 12, 2022

I forgot the link! https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/

Thanks @pruvisto for such a nice tool.

Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

Show threadChris MahanNov 13, 2022
@evan @pruvisto i have done the thing and manually updated the people! Yay, thank you!
Show threadSiunNov 13, 2022
@evan @pruvisto such a nice tool - no fuss no muss
Show threadAaron W | ☕️Nov 13, 2022
@evan @pruvisto I have to second this. Great tool, thank you!
Show threadChris MahanNov 12, 2022
@evan @pruvisto ohhh wow!
Show threadChris MahanNov 19, 2022

@pruvisto @evan how long is it supposed to take? is it delayed until the server is less busy?

question from another user : https://mastodon.social/@matthieu/109372321639235564

Show threadManuel EberlNov 20, 2022
@chris_mahan @evan If you're talking about the input: I have no idea. I don't know how any of that works. But I have heard from people for whom it really does take excessively long. Like, days.
Show threadRichard BairwellNov 20, 2022
@pruvisto @chris_mahan @evan I know on the server I've just migrated to that there is a big job in the queue being processed so "niceties" such as bulk imports are being delayed (it's been about 3 hours). When I was doing imports on mastodon.social it seemed to be less than 10 minutes per time.