One of the things I would miss here on Mastodon was all of the alerts from my local infrastructure and government twitter accounts. These will likely take a very long time to make the migration.

With https://bird.makeup, you can create bot accounts that put those tweets in your Mastodon timeline. For instance, I follow the Washington State Patrol account for regional weather related road closures and accident reports:

@[email protected]

EDIT: I Should have tagged the project's creator: @vincent

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@awilbert @[email protected] @vincent

Hmm... From the description I can't decide if this is the kind of feature I wish I could support. It's my old #CSB delusions again...

One feature I wish I could pay for would fix the hashtag warning that seems to oblige me to use global posting... Or most likely I'm not understanding how to use Mastodon or hashtags properly.