Risto TrekslerIf you joined typo.social and would rather be there than on mastodon.online there is a process for migrating that you can find online. It’s a bit of a PITA, but you have to fiddle in the settings of both sites and then boost all your toots from previous instance to new instance. All the followers move over as well. Moving from one site to another is a bit like from moving from Twitter to a mastodon site. Gotta move followers and content. Just don’t have to map followers. They move as is
Jonathan Cahill@ristotreksler what are the benefits of being on one server vs another #imnewhere
@jcahill each server has their list of users. So some servers have more people on them and are more active.
People on different servers will talk mostly about different issues. Eg tech vs Canadian news
Each server has its own person or team of people managing it. They could take a different approach to content moderation. Make different rules for what’s allowed.
They will also have different budgets, so server performance might be different . They may or may not enable full text search. Etc
@ristotreksler makes total sense. I’m loving the decentralized nature of this. Seems scalable and with that lacks being vulnerable of being controlled by corporations/deep pockets.
Excited to see what the future holds and who starts to migrate over.
@jcahill I follow about 800 people on Twitter. So far, I’ve found about 50 of them on here. 1/16th
When you consider that Twitter has about 300million users and mastodon about 1million, you’d expect only 1 in 300 users to be on here or about 3 out of 800.
Given that I found 50, not just 3 so far, you could argue the people I followed were 17x more likely to move over than the average Twitter user.