HoaxEyeJul 16, 2023

I want to escape Twitter, but that has turned out to be harder than I thought. Mainly because of 213K followers. It took more than 8 years to achieve that.

But Mastodon has potential. I'm hoping it will be my new home.

My profile is now updated with more personal details. I don't want to do #factchecking or #debunking just via my website. Feel free to ask/tag me especially in case you see an iffy picture or video.

Note that my website doesn't have ads or tracking. https://hoaxeye.com/

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Show thread🌊Ann Morris🐕🍀🌎🌊🌊Jul 16, 2023
@hoaxeye I notice you have 3.6 followers but only follow 30 or so. Is there a reason why you don’t feel the need to follow your followers?
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@AnnMorris I haven’t decided my Mastodon follow ‘strategy’. On Twitter I follow fact checkers, many journalists, OSINT experts, scientists from various fields. Others I follow via lists. I have about 30 lists. Idea is to keep my timeline manageable so that posts about fact checking and related are easy to find. I don’t know enough about Mastodon yet to make decisions about this.
Jul 16, 2023 at 4:31pmWeb
Show threadVirginia MurrJul 16, 2023

@hoaxeye @AnnMorris

FWIW: I tracked fakes on Twitter for years. I was inordinately cautious w/ whom I followed & my followers (constantly culled).

Mastodon has been vastly different (& better) in that regard. I am not remotely concerned with follower counts, but I can tell you a couple of things that will help:
1. following a lot of accounts of interest is *good* here
2. Actual engagement is necessary (so, post, boost others, and *reply* to others)--this will help to boost your following