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 threadThe Reality UnicornJul 17, 2023
@hoaxeye I am sure you did not want your post to sound like it was written by a petulant child.

Why not treat this as an opportunity to get in early and grow your audience here. The Twitter fanbois are blind to the fact that Twitter could well be doomed, and very soon. Elon Musk admitted at the weekend they have lost 50% of their revenue. That's huge. He also has $13bn of debt to pay by end of July. Those numbers are not sustainable.
Show threadHoaxEye
@unicorn Correct, I did not want my post to sound like it was written by a petulant child. Maybe it’s because English is not my native language
Jul 17, 2023 at 1:26pmWeb
Show threadThe Reality UnicornJul 17, 2023
@hoaxeye You're English is very good. I hope you are able to build up following here as your website is interesting
Show threadHoaxEyeJul 17, 2023
@unicorn Thank you. I’ll definitely try to “restart” here. Mastodon is the only promising platform currently. It’s bit difficult to use, UX isn’t optimal and the search function is limited, but it probably improves gradually and hopefully attracts a lot of new, active users
Show threadBumbleJul 17, 2023
@hoaxeye @unicorn have a look at Calckey if you want something a little more powerful than Mastodon. Don't worry, they participate in the same Fediverse so they talk to each other seamlessly. There are many platforms out there all chatting away. It's not a closed system.

Calckey has longer posting length and text formatting, but many other great features.

Searching is different on the fediverse. As it is a distributed system there is no way to search the entire system. You search the server you are on only (but you find posts it knows about from other servers and people).

Hashtags are the most important way of finding things.

Also https://www.tootfinder.ch is a nice way to find posts across the fediverse, but only if someone has signed up to it.

Feel free to sign up and test Calckey on our server https://iBe.social You can delete the account if you don't like it.
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