Let's organize a Mastodon Energy Community

Let's make it easier for #EnergyTwitter to meet #EnergyMastodon! It seems like a great platform for bringing together people with shared niche interests, away from the sometimes frantic vibes of Twitter. If you'd like more background, Danielle Navarro wrote a great introduction to Mastodon. Enter your Twitter and Mastodon handles in the form below. They will both appear in a public spreadsheet. Put your Mastodon handle in your Twitter bio or display name. This lets us verify that it's really you (the owner of the Twitter account) who entered a Mastodon handle here. It will also make it easier for your Twitter followers to find you using tools like Debirdify. Complete your Mastodon profile and bio. You may want to start out with the same profile pic that you use on Twitter, so people can recognize you immediately. Having a bio and a profile pic also makes it much more likely that someone will follow you back as a new account. Put a link to your Twitter profile in your Mastodon profile (use the "profile metadata" section). This lets us verify that the Mastodon account is really controlled by the same person as the Twitter account. Make an introduction post on Mastodon using the #introduction and #EnergyTwitter hashtags. Feel free to add other hashtags so folks who share your interests can find you! e.g. #ClimateChange #EnergyTransition #RenewableEnergy #ClimateJustice #oott #NuclearEnergy (Note: CamelCase helps screen-readers parse multi-word hashtags correctly for the visually impaired.) Boost #introduction posts from folks you already know and love! We'll compile a list of new accounts every week and do an #EnergyTwitter #FollowFriday thread. Periodically import new follows (very optional): If following a bunch of people by hand becomes tedious, we've added 2 tabs to the response spreadsheet that contain lists of accounts ready for import into Mastodon as CSVs. One contains all the bidirectionally verified accounts (with the profile links mentioned above) and the other is just all of the accounts that have filled out the form. Make sure you use the "merge" and not "overwrite" option when you import!