emptywheelHere's a comment for incoming Twitter users: I've found that some are really put off by the way Mastodon requires push and pull to get to information. Rather than Elmo telling you what to read (and steering you to most incendiary content), you have to go look for it and choose to consume it. Most notably, I've come to think of "Content Warnings" as instead subject lines, just like you'd use in an email, so readers can scan whether they want to read further.
Luigi de Guzman@emptywheel what is really putting people off right now isn’t so much the push and pull as the how impossible it is to find…anyone. People are trying to reconstitute social networks of mutuals now and the system is designed to make this difficult on purpose.
@emptywheel so many posts trying to be helpful seem to assume people are migrating and starting over from zero. Maybe that’s why I see so many enthusiastic “this is a COMMUNITY we BUILD!” posts. New migrants already had communities they want to re-build. Support for that is…less evident.
AnnDebirdify is a website that scans your Twitter follows and lists for mastodon accounts. Super helpful for finding your network here.
https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
It's really slow today, but just worked for me.
@AnnIsHere @emptywheel people are now moving over faster than they update their profiles on Twitter, so this is of limited use at best.
In any event it’s been down for me all day.