I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.

Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration

Boost if you agree.

#spreadmastodon

@TNLNYC Sounds like you had more success with this approach than I did.

I announced a couple of times on each platform when I’d be leaving Twitter and Facebook and that I had moved here (linked to my account and everything).

Zero family followed me here and I think there’s a total of… two?… friends who showed up here after that. From hundreds of connections on each site.

But, you can lead a horse to water, blah blah blah. 🤷‍♂️

@reay I did the whole announce publicly, delete all other tweets, and follow everyone you followed who moved over on here. But now getting to the laggards in my following by actively asking them to leave Twitter :)

@TNLNYC I sincerely don’t know how anyone stands being there.

It was psychologically bad already anyway, then Musk took over and just poured gas on the dumpster fire.

I get that people may need to be on for work, or whatever, but to be on casually just to wind down and relax or bide the time, or whatever?

Woof.