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leemeade May 6, 2023

Spent the last 2 1/2hrs on tennis Twitter. The women’s final from Madrid was extra special and TT is the best place (still) to experience live tennis. The result? Aryna Sabalenka over World no. 1 Iga Swiatek in 3 amazing sets. Some points were jump-out-of-your-seat fantastic. A lot of them actually.
One day I hope Mastodon will become that special place for live tennis.
#tennis #MMopen #WTA

Savannah May 6, 2023

We had a great convo and discussion going here. Hang out here a bit and see how active we are for #tennis

leemeade May 6, 2023

@savannahstennis will do. I’m following the hashtag now.

Hashtags rule here no matter what instance you're in.
#tennis

leemeade May 6, 2023

@savannahstennis yup.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 6, 2023

@savannahstennis @leemeade

#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.

Filters are fab for blocking topics.

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

leemeade May 6, 2023

@emarktaylor @savannahstennis using Ivory for my main mobile client. Haven’t really done Mastodon thru a browser.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 6, 2023

@savannahstennis @leemeade

Whoops. You joined in November.

Sorry - I thought you might be new.

You probably know all this stuff already so ignore me.

leemeade May 6, 2023

@emarktaylor @savannahstennis nope, I did not know. This is very helpful. Thanks.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 6, 2023

@leemeade @savannahstennis .
#TwitterMigration

The vids are short and he's just teaching, not pushing anything.

People who have been on here for months don't know about the Advanced View in the browser, how to have groups of hashtags in columns (you don't have to follow the hashtags so you don't end up with a double-up in your home feed) and people have made a dog's breakfast of moving instances when he shows it's dead easy.

Here's a selection of the feeds/columns on my browser:

leemeade May 7, 2023

@emarktaylor @savannahstennis mine looks similarly when I’m using Tweetdeck. Use the lists function to get this look. Not logged into Tweetdeck atm, you get the idea.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 7, 2023

@leemeade @savannahstennis

This is Twitter on your iPhone - yes?

leemeade May 7, 2023

@emarktaylor @savannahstennis yup, iPad.

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 7, 2023

@leemeade @savannahstennis

Nice to see you also follow Rex.

His mirror/bot account is here: @rexchapman

He set up a real account here in November, used it for a few days and then went back,

Mark Taylor 🇳🇿May 7, 2023

@savannahstennis @leemeade

#TwitterMigration #Sports

These guys mirror 100s of sports accounts on the bird site.

@sportsbots
#SportsBotsRoster

You go to their website, sign in with your Mastodon login, click the account you want to follow and all their posts end up in your home feed. It's really good.

If it's not working you just paste the account name you want to follow into search and it's the a/c with the suffix @sportsbots.xyz.

Website:

https://www.sportsbots.xyz/

SportsBots

Follow your favorite teams, reporters, analysts and more on Mastodon with our curated roster of bots.

leemeade May 7, 2023

@emarktaylor @savannahstennis @sportsbots very helpful. Already followed some accts.
Thanks.