Hi all! Mastodon newbie here. I'm trying to find my community of #scientists to follow-- mainly #deepsea #marinebiology, #entomology and #datascience but definitely not limited to just those. Any help is greatly appreciated!!

@Marla_MarineBiol finding people to follow can be tricky, you can use https://debirdify.pruvisto.org to help you find where your twitter followers moved to on mastodon

You could also join a more specialist server like ecoevo.social or scicomm.xyz, you could also search mastodon for those servers to find people who are on them (I did that)

Once you find someone you feel your interest overlap with, on the mastodon website you can see the people they follow and you can follow them

Debirdify

This is a web app that helps you find out which of the people you follow on Twitter are on Mastodon/in the Fediverse already and follow all of them easily.

@natbat thank you Natalie- that's great advice. I appreciate it!
@Marla_MarineBiol if you do move servers you can set up a redirect from your existing server and that I believe will migrate your followers over to the new account, good luck!