Sarah WinnickiNov 18, 2022

Seems increasingly likely the other site will be going down soon!

Don’t forget there’s a tool you can use to find the Mastodon profiles of folks you interacted with on the bird site! It can generate a csv of all the Mastodon handles in the profiles of those who you follow, share lists with, or are followed by! You can import it to Mastodon, easy peasy, though it needs the bird site to be live, may not be forever unfortunately! Check it out here: https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

Fedifinder

Fediverse accounts of your X/Twitter followings

Show threadSarah WinnickiNov 18, 2022

I’m very happy with my time on #ScienceTwitter and devastated at the idea I’ll lose it, so I just ran this tool (link in previous post) and followed a gigantic csv’s worth of accounts, literally hundreds, sorry folks! Desperate times call for desperate measures I guess!

Also if your account on the bird site is still active, think about putting your Mastodon handle (@ username @ server) in your bio, profile name, or pinned tweet! Just in case

Show thread@krisnelson
@skwinnicki Excellent move! I’ve realized the key here that’s made it fun & active is following lots of diverse people (vs Twitter where it wasn’t as much fun until I had enough people following *me*)
Nov 18, 2022 at 5:23amWeb
Show threadSarah WinnickiNov 18, 2022

@krisnelson exactly!! I love the ecology and evolution folks on my server here, but I’m more than just an evolutionary ecologist! It took so long to build all these connections on Twitter and explore all my interests, this was a nice way to try to regain some of that!

It’ll take me a bit to lose the Twitter impulse to “go viral at all costs!” here (healthy to not think like that anyway haha) but at least this way I can see more people with more interests!