Mastodawn

Kate Ozment Mar 28, 2023

Hi everyone! Decided to finally take the Mastodon leap and am shutting down my Twitter. For those who do not know me: I'm in eighteenth-century studies with approaches from book history, women's lit, and digital humanities and I dabble quite a bit in studies in sexuality, empire, and colonialism.

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Mark Taylor 🇳🇿Mar 28, 2023

@grubstreetwomen

#TwitterMigration

This guy did 3 x 10 minute videos. They saved me months of learning when I joined in November.

This site is all about hashtags to search for topics.

But following people also works like the other site.

Setting up your browser is important (as shown in the videos).

But if you live on your phone there are tons of good apps that have the same functionality. I use Tusky for Android.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=mrsiej2dpBY&list=WL&index=51&t=22s&ab_channel=TheExplorographer

How To Mastodon - Pt 1 - The New Social Social Media - Bye Bye Twitter!!

YouTube

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Mathias ❄️🐺🐶

Mar 29, 2023

@emarktaylor I'm sure the videos are great, and if someone wants a deep dive they should do. But I think a lot of the resistance in switching among the (good) masses is that there's this idea that the fediverse *needs* 30 minutes of video to understand. Three of your bullet points summed it up: following people is the same as before (their name just has an @ something dot whatevs at the end of it), and download Tusky or a good iOS app. Search by hashtag. Then you're off!

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Mathias ❄️🐺🐶

@emarktaylor The quirks (no QRTs, sometimes someone's profile won't be up to date when you look through your app of choice) and etiquette (use captions and CWs) largely explain themselves from there.