Lesley Carhart Nov 24, 2022

For your first day on Mastodon, just a few humbly suggested steps! Welcome to the party!

1) Consider if you're on the server for you, your hobbies, and your moderation desires. You can always migrate your account, later. https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

2) Make a profile! These can be longer than Twitter ones - and you can format them with line breaks, italics (using asterix), and loads of emoji if your server supports markup. Check the emoji on your server, here! https://emojos.in/

3) If you liked who you followed on Twitter, use https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ and/or https://fedifinder.glitch.me/ to create a csv of all the people you followed there to upload into Mastodon, using the web menu option Preferences > Import. Now you are following the same folks!

4) Using https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/, you can also export your Twitter blocklist, and import it using the same function in Mastodon.

5) Create an introduction post! Use lots of hashtags to help people find you and your interests, as there's no algorithm or string search function here. Make sure to add the hashtag introduction!

6) Get used to using hashtags in your posts regularly, so that people can find them manually or using the hashtag following function, or the rss feed function.

7) Use CWs liberally, to help people decide what to see. Follow your server's guidelines, but definitely CW those movie spoilers!

8) Use alt text in your images whenever possible, to help people with screen readers enjoy it here, too!

9) Enjoy your new community, and have a lot of fun!

#MastodonTips #MastodonNewbie

Moving or leaving accounts - Mastodon documentation

Take your information and do what you want with it.

Show threadice.cream.assassinNov 24, 2022
@hacks4pancakes are there any tools to help import Twitter follows from a local backup? Near as I can tell the online tools don’t work with a suspended account but I have a recent-ish backup on a hard drive.
Show threadplanetscape

@icassassin I have simply been creating .csv files and using Preferences | Import and Export | Import | Merge (that last is very important)

HTH

Nov 25, 2022 at 1:16amWeb
Show threadice.cream.assassinNov 25, 2022
@planetscape what are you putting into the .csv files? Just the Twitter ids? I guess my issue is that what I have is a .json file that has Twitter urls and IDs but no, like, usernames.
Show threadplanetscapeNov 25, 2022

@icassassin Oh, I am sorry! I misunderstood. I have been importing usernames like "@planetscape@mastodon(.)social" [parens added so it doesn't link]. One username+instance per line.

Tho I believe, per:

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]al/109309590004656679

that #debirdify (https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/) may do what you want?

Again, my apologies for misunderstanding.

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.

Show threadplanetscapeNov 25, 2022

@icassassin Ah, more apologies are in order. #Debirdify also requires user names, not IDs.

Do you have access to the Twitter API?

Show threadice.cream.assassinNov 25, 2022
@planetscape yeah I’m starting to think I’m going to have to whip something up myself. I don’t JavaScript but I do Python and I’m going to start looking into ActivityPub after the holiday.