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Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by styfle »

masukomi wrote: post #42

ugh. this has a killer flaw > Looking for Mastodon users progress, scanned 867 of 867 users you follow on Twitter. Discovered 0 Twitter users on Mastodon who have previously linked their Twitter and Mastodon accounts by logging into Twitodon. WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY LINKED ACCOUNTS... BY LOGGING IN TO TWITODON the odds of that having happened for any notable subset are so low as to make this useless.

Instead of creating a new service, it would be better if this read from https://keybase.io since those mappings already exist.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by augustuspolius »

cmrdporcupine wrote: post #104
augustuspolius wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is there a non-niche general Mastodon instance that's really popular? That would be the easiest way for me personally to embrace it. I checked a few instances and it's all very niche and very empty. (To clarify, I don't mind niche instances, just at this stage there isn't enough discussion or interesting profiles to follow.)

mastodon.social is by far the largest, but the recommendation is generally to find the one that has interests & people on it you find interesting to start. you'll get content from people on mastodon.social anyways.

This looks great, definitely more active and offers a good variety of topics/profiles.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

augustuspolius wrote: post #110
bkuehl wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can be a part of a large or small instance and your consumption/conversation is not limited to users on that instance. You can follow people from other instances as well as scroll through a timeline that is posts/toots from across the fediverse (not just your local instance)

Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure how account handling/ownership works.

There are migration tools to move your followers and your followings between nodes. But no way to move your posts. And so, yes, your identity partially/kind-of doesn't move. But mostly sort of does?

At first this bugged me, but then it was pointed out that if you could just move your posts you could also potentially violate the moderation rules of the host you were moving to. So it makes some sense.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

augustuspolius wrote: post #113
cmrdporcupine wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

mastodon.social is by far the largest, but the recommendation is generally to find the one that has interests & people on it you find interesting to start. you'll get content from people on mastodon.social anyways.

This looks great, definitely more active and offers a good variety of topics/profiles.

I went with indieweb.social. I think some people from hackernews might find a vibe they like generally there.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by cmrdporcupine »

anigbrowl wrote: post #106

When are Mastodon stans going to figure out that the reason people like Twitter is that it's (nominally) flat and you can interact with anyone unless they've blocked you for some reason? It's easy to build silos, which is what most instances are. Mastodon just reinvented single sign-on. It's not a terrible thing to build, but whenever you make a product that's just imitating someone else (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mas…

> (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mastodon has 'toots' because the logo is an elephant!)

It's a mastodon, not an elephant!!

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by bkuehl »

augustuspolius wrote: post #110
bkuehl wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can be a part of a large or small instance and your consumption/conversation is not limited to users on that instance. You can follow people from other instances as well as scroll through a timeline that is posts/toots from across the fediverse (not just your local instance)

Got it. Does it make any difference where I register first? E.g. if that instance disappears overnight, will I be able to recover my account or not? I understand that I can access posts from all instances in the instance I use, but not sure how account handling/ownership works.

To start, you should choose an instance that had been around for a while and isn't too small. Instances do shutdown occasionally but the admin(s) will give you plenty of time to migrate to a new instance. Mastodon has built-in tools to migrate your whole account (and content) to another instance if needed. I'm currently having to do that because a large well-established instance (mastodon.technology) is shutting down the end of the year.

Re: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon

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Post by jdeibele »

anigbrowl wrote: post #106

When are Mastodon stans going to figure out that the reason people like Twitter is that it's (nominally) flat and you can interact with anyone unless they've blocked you for some reason? It's easy to build silos, which is what most instances are. Mastodon just reinvented single sign-on. It's not a terrible thing to build, but whenever you make a product that's just imitating someone else (Twitter has 'tweets' but Mas…

I actively dislike the federation that Mastodon is using. If they would let me use somebody@gnail.com or somebody@hotmail.com, fine. Or somebody@mastodon.master-name-server. Instead, you have somebody@mastodon.technology.

Guess what? mastodon.technology is closing down. Any connections using that address are going to be lost.

It's really too bad that the idea of where you connect became conflated with what your name is.

PS: thanks to the person who was running mastodon.technology and found that it was too much to do with what else was going on in their life.

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