Max Pearl

@Pearlbear
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Polymath, facilitator, writer, geeky. Toots about science fiction, writing, politics, tech, whatever. Trans. He/him.
Bloghttps://metacentricities.com
Author Sitehttps://author.maxwellpearl.com
Main Sitehttps://maxwellpearl.com
Max PearlNov 4, 2022
Katerina MarchánNov 4, 2022

Greetings and Welcome to the Fediverse.

Your first mission, should you choose to accept it, is to start finding people to follow.

You really don't have to be super picky right now. You just want to start getting your feed busy so you can start organically finding content.

Additionally, if you've decided to use the Tweetdeck-style advanced interface, make sure to set up one or more columns with hashtags you want to follow! That's another big way people discover content on here!

Mastodon doesn't default to having an in-your-face content algorithm, which does mean that you need to put in a _little_ more work to find stuff you want to engage with. This is a good thing!

Your second mission, of course, is to actually _engage_ with stuff you like, instead of just liking and walking away. Having conversations with "randos" is a lot easier and less awkward on here, and people are more likely to respond to you. Talk to us! Even (especially) if we have a lot of followers! This is how you get the other end of the puzzle (people who follow _you_).

Enjoy your stay and I hope it's safe and cozy <3

#twittermigration

Max PearlNov 4, 2022
JonathanNov 4, 2022
Most folks, I think, just need to ignore the decentralized nature of Mastodon. While it makes user names a bit longer, in practice for most people, it works like one big server. Just go with the flow, read your Local timeline and follow hashtags.
Max PearlNov 4, 2022
It's been interesting watching accounts I follow that, like mine, had been basically silent for years here, come to life. (I joined Mastodon in 2018.)
Max PearlNov 4, 2022
David SlackNov 4, 2022

The whole idea of the town square is that it belongs to the town. No one should be able to buy it. And honestly, they can’t.

Twitter isn’t really the town square, any more than Facebook is or MySpace was.

We are the town square. It goes where we go. No one can buy that.

Max PearlNov 4, 2022
I retired from #technology work at the end of last year, so I haven't installed anything from scratch for months. Flexing my devops muscles again with my Mastodon instance.
Max PearlNov 3, 2022
Eugen RochkoNov 3, 2022
199,430 is the number of new users across different Mastodon servers since October 27, along with 437 new servers. This bring last day's total to 608,837 active users, which is without precedent the highest it's ever been for Mastodon and the fediverse.
Max PearlNov 3, 2022
Austin Kocher, PhD 🌎Nov 3, 2022

Mastodon in the news: People on Twitter announce they will quit on the platform, many announcing that they “will move to Mastodon, an open-source, decentralized Twitter look-alike. That platform has been around for six years, but it’s never quite taken off. Regardless, it is openly capitalizing on the moment and reportedly signed up about 100,000 new users over the weekend.”

@Mastodon @Gargron #fediverse #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Twitter #news

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2022/11/people-say-theyre-leaving-twitter-are-they-really/671967/

People Say They’re Leaving Twitter. Are They Really?

Twitter would have to become functionally worse, and something else would have to be obviously better.

The Atlantic
Max PearlNov 3, 2022
Show threadKevin MorrisNov 3, 2022
Sharing stuff over here seems lower-stakes than on the bird site, so if you're interested in seeing the paper, here's the link!
https://www.kevintmorris.com/_files/ugd/79f464_5b688e1c936641f2909712c4284e8eeb.pdf
Max PearlNov 3, 2022
Show threadVincent Van DinskyNov 2, 2022
@wjmaggos @pluralistic
There should be a law to require autoresponder capability on DMs, so I can say "I've left FB. You can reach me at xxxx."
Max PearlNov 2, 2022
Alas, bookwyrm.social is down...