I've just joined Mastodon. It'll take a while to weed out the Trolls and the BOTS! Thank you to all followers! I'll see how it goes with Twitter for now! This account is at present my backup to Twitter!
Thanks all.
@snb19692 thanks for making it easy to find you!
@snb19692 Already following on Twitter and found you here!
@snb19692 Welcome. Useful article from EFF
"EFF has been at the forefront of the internet freedom issues for over 30 years. This article discusses Mastodon's security strengths and weaknesses."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/11/mastodon-private-and-secure-lets-take-look
Is Mastodon Private and Secure? Let’s Take a Look

This post is part of a series on Mastodon and the fediverse. We also have a post on what the fediverse is, why the fediverse will be great—if we don't screw it up, and how to make a Mastadon account. You can follow EFF on Mastodon here.With so many users migrating to Mastodon as their micro-...

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@snb19692 glad you gave the details as there is another Steve Bray purporting to be you on beta.birdsite.live.
@dox @snb19692 beta.birdsite.live is bots that repost content from Twitter. Not imposters - just bots.
@asjmcguire @snb19692 Thanks for clarifying. Something else we need to understand about Mastodon!
@snb19692 welcome on board! It’s really a lot more wholesome here.
@snb19692 welcome aboard the mastodon train Steve 👍😊
@snb19692 great to see young here also, Steve 👍
@snb19692 yay! Welcome. Feels like all the old gang is getting back together (I’m the one right at the back, blurry but persistent).
@snb19692 It looks like we may all end up here
@snb19692 hi Steve great to see you here! Also just joined and finding many familiar friends

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Woo hoo welcome Sir. Happy to see you here
#fbpe

@snb19692 Welcome aboard. Trolls are rare here. Just try not to be too sweary (use the amazing CW button) 🎩 🇪🇺
@snb19692 lot of new people. Me included.
@snb19692 Watcha, Steve. Excellent to have you here, fellah. Keep doin' what you're doin'!
@snb19692 Welcome aboard Steve
@snb19692 Great to see you here Steve 😀
I joined 2 weeks ago but am still getting my head around it! x
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Good to see you here, here are a couple of links which may help to get you started
https://dev.to/zkat/kat-s-mastodon-quickstart-for-twitter-users-39db
https://axbom.com/mastodon-tips/
Kat's quick start guide was the one I found most useful, to begin with
Kat's Mastodon Quickstart for Twitter Users

So you like Twitter, but you're curious about Mastodon? You've come to the right place. I'll make...

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@snb19692 thanks Steve, I have followed you (we follow each other on Twitter). Take care!
@snb19692 Hi Steve, Welcome to Mastodon.
@snb19692 good afternoon Mr Bray, at the moment the trolls don’t appear to have discovered this app. It is lovely and friendly and I have yet to swear (which was a regular occurrence on Twitter)

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Hurray!!

Welcome Steve. Good to see you.

Early days for many of us
We'll get there together
Looking forward to boosting your toots
xx

@snb19692 followed. This place is a good insurance policy against bird death
@snb19692 great to see you here Steve. Power to the People
@snb19692 Hello Steve wow happy to have found you here !!! Stronger together ! Hope you’re having a great weekend ! Thank you for everything you do for us all !!!
@snb19692 literally a minute hopefully, haven't come across any out here. Is a good place and my blood pressure thanks me for it.
@snb19692 Great to see Steve Bray here! Saw your passionate 😵 speech at the rejoin march. When this is all over; I think we need a Steve Bray statue somewhere around Parliament Square.
@snb19692 Great news! I've been watching for you here, and you've arrived - welcome!
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Welcome Steve…….you can double run for a while!
@snb19692 followed Steve! I think the Twitter baw is bust!

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Hi Steve welcome to the fediverse. That intro toot 👆 was equivalent of walking into a party and announcing the place is full of gate crashers.

I’ll forgive and forget, if you sign and share my Join EU petition. It’s close to 14,000 and closes soon.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/616636
#SteveBray #RejoinEU

Petition: Apply to Join the European Union (EU)

We want the Government to start the process of seeking to rejoin the EU. Only 2% of the public think that Brexit has gone 'very well' and only 15% 'fairly well' since the end of the transition period*.

Petitions - UK Government and Parliament

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I’ve been here for a few good hours now and I’m happy to report that not a #bot / #troll in sight, so far 😊 @ruud managed to create a pretty #SafeSpace so far, let’s hope it stays like that 🙏

@snb19692 great to see you here! Love what you do 🙌
@snb19692 Welcome Steve and thank you for your efforts. Your speech at the Rejoin march was most passionate 😵 When this is all over .. one day .. you deserve a statue in Parliament Square.
@snb19692 thought it had got a bit noisy. Welcome!
@snb19692 Oh I've been here two weeks. And there isn't any. Admins have ways of making them stop talking.
@snb19692 Welcome Steve. I'm very happy that you made an account here on Mastodon. Looking forward following you here as well, as for Twitter, I'm spending less and less time there. Stay well!
@snb19692 I haven’t come across any trolls and been here for a couple of weeks It’s actually quite refreshing
@snb19692 keep up your great work holding the Corrupt Tory’s to account 👏
@snb19692 Welcome Steve, great to see you here!
@snb19692 there seem to be 2 Masytidin accounts in your name, Steve. Hoping this is the genuine one.
@snb19692 hi Steve! The trolls get banned here... 😁
@snb19692 Welcome Steve. Great to see you here.
@snb19692 Remember you can share your twitter posts on here.
@snb19692 welcome Steve. Good to have you here.
@snb19692 Far fewer trolls and bots on here at present :)