Peter Frederick

@pfred60
22 Followers
45 Following
47 Posts

This is my backup plan if Twitter goes into a binfire.

Get vaccinated & wear a good mask 😷. Be a part of the solution. Kindness and empathy necessary. Follow the science and experience.

Employed in IT in the Agribusiness sector. Tweets are all mine & reflect my interests & views.

@criprights Welcome to the Mastodon. Just look at people who are followers or following to find your Ex Bird friends. It seems to be a nice place here.

Edit: Please refer to the updated version at https://mastodon.social/@Geekymary/109360258731293583

#Mastodon #feditips

Flowchart describing the visibility of a public toot per use case.

I updated my blog post about what Mastodon is and how it works based on my recent experience.

Please share with any friends/colleagues who are still using the Bird Site.

#twitterMigration #ScienceMastodon

https://www.badgrammargoodsyntax.com/staying-productive/2022/10/31/an-ad-free-open-source-twitter-alternative-mastodon

An ad-free*, open source Twitter alternative: Mastodon — Bad Grammar, Good Syntax

With Twitter being the de facto online ā€œtown-squareā€ for political (and scientific) discussions, a major issue is that we as users have little to no say in how it is run and who runs it. But what is the alternative to a billionaire owned online town-square? Well, Mastodon is a perfectly cromulent

Bad Grammar, Good Syntax

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.

I don't think Mastodon or the fediverse has ever received this much attention before. It's a great opportunity for people to finally see that social media can be done differently, that it can be a protocol not under control of any single company.

Hey new people and those thinking of joining, you do NOT need to sign up on huge servers!

You can follow and interact with people on any server from any server, the servers are connected.

It would really, really help the network right now if you could sign up on medium or small size servers. You will still be able to follow and interact with whoever you want, and the network as a whole will work much better.

A good safe place for beginners to find servers to join is https://joinmastodon.org/servers

Anyone else got the livestream of the #CollinsStFalcons going? Getting close to leaving the nest! #birds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=on3V22m60uQ
367 Collins Falcons 2022

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@drkatemiller good call. As an aside I absolutely love your threads. So well-considered and I always learn something new. I look forward to seeing more of them.
@Daryltractor Give it time. Twitter was similar in the early days too. Absolutely no obligation to log in or tweet, but check back in from time to time.

@pfred60 I made it across (I think). My old account should be redirected here, and it looks like my followers are being migrated. Your old posts get locked, so I figured better to move earlier than later. You can export/import your follows.

My main motivations were:
- less resources needed to get my personal traffic to the server and back, and also for a fair chunk of my audience
- light theme (for my guests)

I guess that might help load-balance across the fediverse, as all those newbies keep piling in ...