This is my backup plan if Twitter goes into a binfire.
Get vaccinated & wear a good mask š·. 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.
Edit: Please refer to the updated version at https://mastodon.social/@Geekymary/109360258731293583
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.
With Twitter being the de facto online ātown-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
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 canāt.
Twitter isnāt 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.
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
@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 ...
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