@tchambers

I look forward to part 2. In the meantime, I have two comments that someone might find useful.

First is that I was part of the November 2022 fuck Elon migration. That was before ExTwitter locked down their API, so someone had written a little bot that would search your follows there for anyone who had a fediverse handle in their profile (the odd double-@ format, I'm guessing). You could download that as a .CSV and upload it to Mastodon and have an instant large group of familiar people to follow.

Very different than starting from scratch or trying to guess what someone's handle might be and finding them here, even if you know they are in fact here.

I think that's huge for many people because unless you join a very active location-based or interest-based server, it'll feel really lonely for quite a while.

@tchambers

You know what's so cool about the fediverse?

*Someone built those tools and gave them away for free!*