Faye McNeill
Dr. Farhana SultanaRebuilding the same level of communication & community that took years to curate on Twitter will take a lot of time on Mastodon. There will be losses to public discourse & information sharing I'm sure. I still hope that folks will find me on this new site! #TwitterMigration #followfriday
Please say hi!
Gabriel Sigmund
Markus Eicher@farhanasultana Hi! 🤝 May you have a good day.
Dr Grace Peng@farhanasultana I did some GIS tonight looking at park access in LA County. I wish I learned more human Geography (& inference, statistics, history) instead of just GIS tools.
AllSignalMustPass
Peter Gleick@petergleick Hi Peter! Good to find you here too. I'm still learning how to use this site.
Nairita@farhanasultana Hi Dr. Sultana, so happy to find you here. Still figuring out this space, and if boosted equals retweeting !
David Sacerdote@nairita A boost is like a retweet - it means that people following you will get it in their feed.
Big differences:
Everyone is looking at a feed of most recent posts, so no secret algorithm serves to amplify content.
Since there's no opaque algorithm, marking a post as a favorite or clicking a link or otherwise interacting with a post other than boosting doesn't cause more people to see it.
Alx 🐈@farhanasultana Hi and welcome! It’s a honor to have to here!
Manuel F. Herrador
Dr Sahra (she/her)
Zjhitni@farhanasultana bonjour!
Tanya Wilkinson 🇱🇰🇬🇧🇷🇺@farhanasultana hi! Like you I’m new to #mastodon but loving it so far. I hope you have a beautiful weekend 💚
Colleen C Myles@farhanasultana - hi! I used your invite. Thanks!
Danyka K. Byrnes
Read Parable of the Sower@farhanasultana good morning!
Sydannie grant
usfoodpolicy@farhanasultana Hello from a Mastodon complete newbie (Parke from @flyingless)
Dr. Meade Krosby@farhanasultana Hi! 👋🏼 Good to see you here.
Amy Woodson-Boulton@farhanasultana It's good to see you here! I am still VERY confused by....all this!
Rose Abramoff [account moved!]@Amy_WB @farhanasultana Me too! But it's sort of a fun mess isn't it?
@ultracricket @farhanasultana I'm trying to see this as fun???? But I love your enthusiasm. 🥰
@Amy_WB @farhanasultana 🥳 🎉 It seems like all of us not-gen-Z folks are going to mastodon because we absolutely refuse to communicate in photos and videos 😂 That's why I'm not shifting to instagram/tiktok, anyway. On the plus side with this platform, there seems to be a higher character limit. Sort of reminds me of the old blogging days..
Jose Arias Bustamante@farhanasultana hi Dr Sultana, greetings from Vancouver!
Sara Mahdi
Parents For Future 
For sure folks will find you! Welcome to the #Fediverse, @farhanasultana!
https://mastodon.social/@farhanasultana
https://mastodon.social/@farhanasultana
HRH ginsterbusch@farhanasultana well, good luck with that.
also, what makes you think so? I've had more interesting and useful conversations on the Fediverse the last 6ish years. . than I ever had on the Birbsite, like .,EEVERR.
Sylvain Miermont@farhanasultana Hi 👋
It's also a unique occasion to set a new tone for #publicDiscourse. #Mastodon is not a blank slate, but with the new massive influx of people, it's also the perfect time to collectively settle on new #houseRules.
The lack of #algorithmic curation/fiddling will be both a blessing —no financial incentive to bubble-up enraging content to keep the userbase hooked— and a curse —#discoverability will take more effort without an algorithm spoon-feeding us more-or-less-relevant content—.
Thaisa Comelli@farhanasultana hi! You were one of my first searches in this new strange network. Still trying to figure out how to use it 🥲
@farhanasultana it's fantastic to see so many here.
I'm using a migration strategy of avoiding posts of new content to Twitter, but still checking there because a minority of my network has migrated.
Darryl Collins 🚴🏻@farhanasultana frankly my communications and community on Mastodon already surpasses Twitter - and I was there since 2007!