#twitterexodus
In contemplating the portrait of "The Girl with a Pearl Earring" painting, to adore or not to adore? That is simply the question.
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/05/31/visitor-gripes-over-missing-girl-with-a-pearl-earring
#MastoArt #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #Fediverse
Are there others who also regard bookstores, particularly independent ones, as akin to shrines, chapels, and places that demand the utmost reverence?
Here’s a look at some of those in London:
https://www.houseandgarden.co.uk/gallery/most-charming-independent-bookshops-in-london
#JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterRefugee #TwitterExodus #Books #Bookstore #Bookshop
"Blue Skies for North America & Victory for Ukraine" on Post at https://post.news/@/graygoose/2QwC4EecQJ4WgwAa6reJbZsCAfu
#JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterRefugee #TwitterExodus #TwitterRIP #KakhovkaDam #Ukraine #Canada #ForestFires
President Biden invites thousands of LGBTQ+ individuals, singer Betty Who, to Pride Month celebration.
https://apnews.com/article/biden-pride-lgbtq-white-house-ddd40bb1a1110654b9d836e87507db51
#JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #TwitterRIP #Fediverse #LGBTQ+ #Pride
Tim Cook says Apple Vision Pro will change how people engage with tech. Apple's CEO talks to “Good Morning America” co-host Robin Roberts about the company’s first spatial computer, which he calls the “most advanced piece of electronics equipment out there.”
#Apple #VisionPro #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #VR #GMA
‘Dirty Paws’ by Of Monsters and Men, but instead of bees & beasts it’s elephants & blue birds.
The fact that Marques Brownlee is still actively posting and quite engaged on the site with the fascist owner is really disappointing.
I have had the opportunity to experience both Bard and OpenAI's ChatGPT4, and while Bard certainly has its merits, I find myself emotionally connected to OpenAI's ChatGPT4. I hope that expressing my perspective will attract a greater following and appreciation for ChatGPT4. #Bard #OpenAI #ChatGpt4 #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #TwitterRIP #Fediverse
Becky G performs "Chanel" with Peso Pluma at the first weekend of Coachella 2023. The performance was Friday, April 14th on the Coachella Stage. It is indeed quite the treat.
#TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #MastoRadio #BeckyG #PesoPluma #Chanel
@oldmanmike This other version features new lyrics and vocals performed by Tammy Wynette, adding a country music flavor to the electronic dance track. The collaboration was a unique and unexpected fusion of genres and became a significant hit for both the KLF and Tammy Wynette.
#TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #MastoRadio #KLF #TammyWynette
Esta es una comunidad muy reducida en comparación con redes sociales comerciales.
Si tienes una afición o una profesión, tootea sobre ello. Informa y contribuye. Responde e interactúa. La red es más potente cuántas más interacciones haya.
Depende de ti y de mí.
@Aakerbeere @ethevessen so sehe ich das auch! Es sind die kleinen Tropfen die ein Fass zum Überlaufen bringen, die aber auch einen Stein höhlen können.
#twitter #twitterexodus
@Tilopa
It's hard to understand. Is #Musk purposely trying to destroy #Twitter? Does he think he can pull off a right wing takeover of social media as #Murdoch did for TV AND make money in the process? (hint: the audience for right wing crackpot propaganda is significant but not growing, and everyone else will just be turned off) or is he so blinded by his ego that he doesn't realize he's not as smart and powerful as he thinks he is? #twittermigration #twitterexodus
Wow!
#Mastodon now has over #12Million user accounts.
#MastodonGrowth has been enormous over these past months since the #TwitterExodus began.
For context, #Twitter has over a billion accounts, and #BS (BlueSky) has less than 100 thousand.
Mastodon’s big difference is that unlike the other #socialmedia platforms, it is community owned, and not controlled by #oligarchs.
#fediverse #community #oligarchy #ActiviyPub
From: @mastodonusercount
https://mastodon.social/@mastodonusercount/110432512442670695
@cfiesler @bkeegan @MattNicholson @blakeley ⬆️
My #Birdsite account was suspended without warning on the eve of the #2022election. I had noticed scientists joining the #TwitterMigration before that, and #Mastodon was the most frequently mentioned destination. So that’s where I went during my forced #TwitterExodus.
BREAKING - PLS BOOST!
If you are interested in the #ClimateCrisis, follow the #ClimateScientists who left the #BorgSite as a GROUP.
We can all do something to "make this a thing":
follow as many as you can, so other BorgSite groups will learn of this success.
Let's make this #TwitterExodus an avalanche!
Scientists "suffering insults and mass-spam are abandoning Twitter," and setting up shop on Mastodon.
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2023
@mastodonmigration @atomicpoet
@feditips
@Gargron
@GottaLaff
It took me way too long but I just deactivated my account on that other site. Desantis announcement was the last straw. I already saved all my best content for here. Glad to be free of it. Glad to be here with you all!
#TwitterExodus #DesantisIsAFascist
'Free speech absolutist' to meet with book-banning, speech-censoring, history-denying fascist wannabe DeSantis.
Interesting 'free speech'!
Birds of a feather?
Quid pro quo? 💰
Raw Story:
Ron DeSantis will be joined by Elon Musk for launch of presidential bid: report
Ron DeSantis will launch his presidential bid Wednesday on Twitter, NBC News reports.
https://www.rawstory.com/elon-musk-2660553459/
#News #Politics Elonmusk #DeSantis #Twitter #Twittermigration #birdsite
#Twitterexodus #Mastodonmigration
nos·tal·gia a sentimental longing or wistful affection for the past, typically for a period or place with happy personal associations.
Or: Billy Idol performs "Eyes Without a Face" live for SiriusXM's The Spectrum. Happy Sunday. Happy Sunday Morning 🌞. Dedicated to madam Nancy Pelosi & Christine.
#MastoRadio #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #Sirius #SXM #SiriusXM #Fediverse #TwitterExodus #TwitterRefugee #BillyIdol #EyesWithoutAFace #80s
Day15
There is no central architect.
There are some people on the Fediverse who contribute a lot, but there are no Emperors, no Kings. Power is distributed out & shared, and not a pyramid with rulers atop. The rest of the network can just adapt around any figure. The Fediverse can't be bought and sold.
This means my social is not at the whims of negotiating with some central figure, who is unlikely to register I even exist. If I want something different, I can move around the Fediverse to where it's happening that way, even set up my own space if I want.
#Fediverse #FediFriday #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social
”Mange danskere dropper Twitter.” IDA 2023. Via Ritzau. https://via.ritzau.dk/pressemeddelelse/mange-danskere-dropper-twitter?publisherId=3427042&releaseId=13681834
#Twitter #TwitterExodus #ElonMusk #SocialeMedier #SoMeDK #PåDansk
Day14
You can start off in the Fediverse from any platform, so maybe this one.
Maybe you begin with Calckey (this here)/Misskey or Mastodon or Pixelfed (a bit like Instagram). You will soon appreciate your freedom to add other platforms without having to start over from scratch like with the big corporate social walled enclosures that separate their user bases. I post seamlessly from Calckey to my Mastodon followers for example.
3 helpful sites to explore:
An over view of the Fediverse, a co-operation of social platforms. Imagine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Medium, Reddit but co-operating, inter-operating and developing to benefit all the users not some billionaires.
https://jointhefediverse.net/
Calckey servers
https://calckey.org/
Where did your Twitter contacts go? Automatically reconnect to your Twitter people from the many different Fediverse platforms.
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social #SocialMedia #social
Mexico issues first non-binary passport on International Day Against Homophobia
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mexico-first-non-binary-passport-international-day-against-homophobia/
#VoteBlue #MSNBC #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterRefugee#RIPCnn #TwitterExodus #LoveIsLove #SpreadLoveNotHate
‘You wear Walmart khakis’: US cyclist who taunted fascist group wins plaudits. Maddow (from the MSNBC Rachel Maddow show) said: “The white supremacist group eventually left DC … but not before Joe Flood took up permanent residence in the heart of the city.”
#VoteBlue #MSNBC #JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterRefugee#RIPCnn #TwitterExodus #JoeFlood
@packy@fosstodon.org Yes CamelCase is important. Adding that, cheers. #CamelCase #Alt #AltText #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day13
I realise #Fediverse is an evolving co-operating culture with common protocol linking many things. No platform is trying to lock up all my attention in their walled garden.
I can have several accounts, try & use several platforms, keep my circles across all & I'm free to move around. Exporting and importing followers, migrating, these are all #Fediverse core principles. Freely social, not captive eyeballs.
On phone tablet desktop, I can have apps and/or I can open simple browser windows +just type an instance's address. There are many ways to login & communicate across the #Fediverse.
This idea is a revolution in itself. How much effort did I lose on doomed corporation farms that were jealously trying to carve out separately, wall away and own their userbase. Myspace, Google+, Facebook, Twitter.
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus #SocialMedia #social
Day12
#Fediverse has many apps & projects, many servers, many mod teams. This is its strength.
No1 can buy it up.
The code is all open source. No advertisers. There is no reason to make us anxious or aggressive to make us click more or scroll faster, there is no1 to trade clicks & scrolls to for ad$.
Everything runs on donations & volunteer time+skills.
The servers & platforms I use regularly I should contribute to. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day11
Metrics don't matter here. Numbers don't matter. Mollowers aren't faked here, my voice isn't reduced by algorithms. What matters here is good interactions. Actually being social.
Having more followers does not make my posts more visible.
Following fewer people does not make my posts more visible.
Having lots of favs does not make my posts more visible.
It is not a system of social overlords broadcasting at serfs who don't get heard.
The features here are designed for the users, not for data harvesting or profit. They are deliberate choices to encourage people to treat each other better. There is rapid development and if I need a different feature, I should just look at another platform to access the Fediverse which will give it to me.
I can use many Fediverse websites/apps, and keep all my circle of people across them.
People matter, not metrics. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day10
If there are subjects I don't want to deal with I can set filter words in my profile settings which will stop certain topics from showing up in my feeds.
#Fediverse & it's different platforms+software have masses of clever tools, & different ways to access. You communicate with people all over the Fediverse, seamlessly.
So much more to explore, new projects, new apps: #PixelFed like Instagram but not trying to sell you stuff
#PeerTube like Youtube but not ads based
#Friendica like Facebook but not harvesting data
& many more to discover
#Calckey like a smooth & fun new Twitter replacement #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day9
This place is built on kindness, on respecting each other, on listening, on benefit of the doubt, on not trying to 'win' conversations but learn from them. Humans beings are varied, that makes life interesting.
I must not leap to be be negative back. Maybe they just have too much stress today. If I have to I can block. If troll servers turn up, I can block an entire server if I need to - but probably the mod heroes will be on it anyway.
They're volunteers, our mods and admins, and it's a tough job, let alone when it's unpaid. Be kind to them!
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day8
When uploading images try and describe the images in the alt text box, this is good for people using screenreaders, blind, partially sighted etc. Try to remember to include people.
Fediverse is MUCH better at this than most places, something to be proud of, lets keep it that way! #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day7
Emails have a subject line which I click to expand body of the message.
Fediverse has similar thing. A content wrapper [CW] button when posting that adds a title, then one clicks to expand post.
It takes very little extra time to do. Subject line doesn't prevent me sending email! It's good for long posts or stuff that people might not want to see.
Remember sometimes people just need a break from things going wrong in the world. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day6
I should write an introduction post to say hello and tell people a bit about myself.
Include the #introduction hashtag. Pin it to my profile.
Include lots of hashtags, so people can find me too. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day5
There are multiple feeds. You can customise them.
🛳️Home includes everyone I follow from any server for multiple social platforms.
⛴️Local=everyone on my ship (physical server).
🚢Federated=a step wider network, the people that locals are connected to or are searching.
#Fediverse is like a fleet. Different types & sizes of ships. Different sizes of instances/servers running a variety of social platforms. But all communicating & co-operating across the Fediverse. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day4
⭐ is the ❤️ button but it only tells the author you like their post, nobody else.
🔁Boost🔁 is what moves info around.
There is no algorithm, we choose and not some algorithm under corporate control. We choose by 🔁boosting🔁 posts and by using #hashtags.
If I put hashtags more at the bottom of a post it is kind to those using screen readers, partially sighted, blind etc. Fediverse has a good reputation for inclusion, we must keep it going.
Some platforms like Calckey even have a separate box below main post compose area, just for adding hashtags. #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day3
👊I can put #hashTags in the search bar & find intersting things. Join in those conversations. Find more people to follow.
✊Locals on my server might answer questions eg "what's a good #hashtag to find historians with?" #Histodons Many are obvious eg #naturePhotography #ClimateChange
🤜I could pin hashtags as columns, or follow hashtags to put them in homefeed. I can create rules + keywords + hashtags + users based notifications called antennas on platforms like Calckey. There are many ways to find stuff or be notified on topics you specify.
🤛I can edit my posts (4.0+ Mastodon, Calckey, various other platforms). #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day2
👊I know bookmarks!
Bookmark a post via an icon or 3 dots flyout menu to return to something useful.
✊Follow liberally!
Morefollows has zero algorithm penalty here. Is no algorithm. More people I follow, more interesting my feeds get. There are good tools for management.
🤜I can click #hashtags!
#FediTips or #Newbies. I click hashtags to learn more stuff & find more people!
🤛I look at different feeds like local federated home etc.
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Day 1
Where am I? Is this the Fediverse? What is the Mastodon?
..
👉 Click for Thread🧵
What I've learned about #Fediverse (#Mastodon #Calckey etc) condensed to help others.
3 helpful sites:
The Fediverse, a co-operation of social platforms. Imagine Facebook, Twttr, Instagram, Tiktok, Youtube, Medium but co-op to benefit the users not a few billionaires
https://jointhefediverse.net/
Calckey servers
https://calckey.org/
Where did your Twitter contacts go?
https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
#FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #FediTips #Help #New #Newbies #NewHere #Social #Welcome #TwitterMigration #TwitterExodus
Putting my Mastodon URL into fields that ask for Twitter handles and it feels right. #TwitterExodus
Finally deleted the Twitter account this week. I had an account since 2008! It's just depressing to see what it's turned into now.
Maybe 4-5 of my friends are still there but it was tough to see their posts with all of the promoted stuff wedged in the middle.
@MeanwhileinCanada ⬆️
Gullibility tests used to only cost $1. 😂 #inflation #TwitterExodus
@atomicpoet Welcome to the new age. It’s 2023 and Spinners gonna spin.
#JohnMastodon #IAmMastodon #TwitterRefugee #TwitterExodus #FediVerse
@mmasnick
I am actually very happy Musk took over Twitter.
I had planned to close down my account for some time, and he helped me to decide. Byebye.
Reminder for those #New to #Mastodon:
Favoriting a post does not increase its visibility on this platform. If you want others to see it, you need to #boost it.
#newHere #newbie #twittermigration #twitterexodus #TwitterTakeover
It was always wild to me that companies offloaded their customer service functions to a third party micro-blog site. What kind of solution is that?
Having to reveal to the internet my precise location and travel plans because a bus didn’t show?
Although, there’s nothing quite like seeing a high profile person with a large following forced to break character to tweet-rage about a missing Evri parcel and be digitally put on hold. Great content.
https://fortune.com/2023/04/27/new-york-mta-twitter-service-alerts-elon-musk/
#twitter #twitterexodus
I'd love to boost some of your toots.
However, before that:
Just a friendly reminder!
@internetarchive
I went on Twitter to see if I ever had one of these blue tacks, I could not log on.
Then it hit me, of course, I already deleted my profile there.
Over on the bird site, Elon is, I swear to you, adding blue check marks against celebrities’ will if they cross him. He’s using it as a punishment now, telling their followers they have paid for Twitter Blue when they haven’t. People are having to keep changing display names just to escape it. It’s enough to make a cat laugh.
#twitter #twitterexodus #elon #elonmusk
"I am actively rooting for the downfall of twitter," @ dril tells me. "I hope to sabotage their efforts to become profitable, no matter how futile, in the hopes that they will eventually close up shop and release us all from this toilet."
Hm.
https://mashable.com/article/block-the-blue-twitter-campaign-dril
You own 'following and followers', not the app.
Decentralize social networking is to completely separate the user interface from the underlying data. Any time you sign up for a new social app, you won’t have to rebuild your audience or re-find all your friends; your whole following and followers list come with you. Those things should be part of the internet, not part of an app.
The Verge:
https://www.theverge.com/2023/4/20/23689570/activitypub-protocol-standard-social-network
#mastodon #twitter #twitterexodus #twittermigration #elonmusk #author #books
Goodbye, blue check. I probably shouldn’t have had you in the first place, and I definitely wasn’t going to pay for you. #TwitterExodus
I like the word Exodus, but maybe just #TwitterExodus?
Still no #TwitterExodus, but another #PublicBroadcaster leaving: Swedish #SverigeRadio quits #Twitter. A reason stated, is that it simply "has become less important to us" & "only 7% of Swedes are daily on Twitter".
#ElonMusk wasn't the reason for leaving, but for evaluating their attitude towards Twitter.
https://sverigesradio.se/artikel/sveriges-radio-slutar-vara-aktivt-pa-twitter
Other than #NPR, #PBS and #CBC they're not pausing their activity on Twitter, but really leaving. Again no word about #Mastodon/#Fediverse, though.
The first thing I need to know is, if people on Twitter are twits, what are people on Mastodon called? #mastodon #twitter #twitterexodus
O, dear, here we go, again…
#abc #News branded with new label 'Government-funded #Media' on #Twitter
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-17/abc-branded-government-funded-media-by-twitter/102230338
#BBC also received the label but it was later changed to "publicly-funded media"
What does #ElonMusk have against 3 letter acronyms (#NPR, #PBS, etc…)?
#governmentfundedmedia #government #TwitterMigration #twitterexodus #news #newstodon
After #NPR and #PBS have shut down their #Twitter accounts, multiple Public Radio Stations in the US have already followed. I found #MinnesotaPublicRadio, #ColoradoPublicRadio and #TexasPublicRadio seemingly or openly leaving the site:
https://www.tpr.org/news/2023-04-13/why-texas-public-radio-is-stepping-away-from-twitter-a-message-from-tprs-president-ceo
https://m.startribune.com/minnesota-public-radio-to-leave-twitter/600267335/
https://twitter.com/COPublicRadio/status/1646988816979472385
Not quite an #TwitterExodus of course, but let's see, where this goes. And it's also no big migration to #Mastodon. At least, not yet? 😉
#Welcome to all the recent influx 👋
I wrote a thread about my first weeks on arrival here in #Fediverse to help others. I do my best to answer questions asked in that thread too.
https://mastodonapp.uk/@ArtBear/109363125342380109
#TwitterMigration #FediTips #Help #TwitterExodus #New #Newbies
#Twitter fallout, daily update:
Now, possibly one of the biggest #newspapers in #German speaking world, DerStandard, suspends theirs Twitter account, citing low traffic👇🏼
#germany #news #web #online #ElonMusk #TwitterMigration #twitterexodus #SocialMedia #birdsite
Wow… American Public Media Group, like #NPR, #PBS & others announce they are suspending the use of Twitter
"#Twitter is now actively aiming to undermine the integrity of public media organizations like ours.”
#media #news #newstodon #TwitterMigration #twitterexodus #ElonMusk #SocialMedia #birdsite
Mastodon, seis meses después de la invasión tuitera:
‼️No creo que Mastodon vaya a sustituir a Twitter en número de usuarios, pero sí que es como una alternativa en la que la gente está a gusto y se puede adaptar‼️
🗣️ Santiago Lamela en @eldiarioes
The heck... this UI theme looks oddly familiar... 🙃
Just missing some features: :fedi:
- fulltext search
- the explore tab in minimized mode
- remember scrolling position when going back in history
Try out the alpha on Universeodon here:
https://elk.universeodon.com
More info: https://github.com/elk-zone/elk
#mastodon #themes #twittermigration #twitter #twitterexodus #elk #elkapp #elktheme #elkmastodon #fedi #fediverse #feditips #ui #twitterui