If you're giving Mastodon a shot, check these tips out.

[ancianita]

Many more useful ideas at
https://www.techdirt.com/2022/12/29/some-tricks-to-making-mastodon-way-more-useful/

Finding people to follow

My biggest “beginner” suggestion is to find and follow a few fairly active accounts, and then when they “boost” someone interesting, follow those people as well. If you’re trying to “migrate” from Twitter, there are a bunch of tools to try to find the people you follow there, including Fedifinder and Debirdify, but the one I found to have the cleanest interface, and the most useful (and allows one-click following) is Movetodon.

If you’re looking for new people to follow around a particular subject, there are a variety of lists out there, including Trunk, Fediverse.info, Fedi.Directory, and PressCheck.org (which verifies journalists, specifically).

A very cool tool I only recently discovered is Followgraph. You put in your Mastodon handle, it looks up all the people you follow and all the people they follow, and then recommends to you the people who lots of your followers follow, but you don’t… It’s pretty useful in surfacing people I might want to follow (though it also surfaces some people I know about but deliberately don’t want to follow).

I also, generally, recommend not cross posting between Twitter and Mastodon, but there are perfectly good reasons to ignore this suggestion. My thinking on it is that this is somewhere different, and you should learn to use it “natively.” Also, it feels like many people set up a cross-poster and then go off and ignore Mastodon, so their accounts are sort of zombie accounts.

[Attilatheblond]

1. Thanks for the tips

It hurts to have to start over on a different social media, but Elon is just hell bent on destroying Twitter.

Between the mess he's made of the bird zone and the seemingly deliberate falling of Tesla, one wonders what sort of financial settlement his last divorce came to. Like, was he required to give the ex a % of profits from his holdings? Some guys are bitter enough to shoot themselves in the foot. Musk sure seems like he's not really playing his best cards.

#midlife crisis from hell

[ancianita]

3. Happy to help

I hear you about the changeover. But the way I look at it, you can add direct access to a whole new cross section of tech savvy people across the country, a new set of journalists, and whole new group of younger people in interesting lines of work across the country.

It could end up being a larger communications network environment that's not siphoning off everyone's data, right?

[Swede]

2. Thanks for this.

Bookmarking for future reference.

[ret5hd]

4. If you're giving Methadone a shot, check these tips out.

My biggest “beginner” suggestion is to find and follow a few fairly active methadone dealers. Tell your heroin dealers you are a police informant. This will insure they will not sell heroin to you in the future.

[ancianita]

9. non sequitur duly noted

[SunSeeker]

5. K & R & Bookmarked!

[keithbvadu2]

6. Twitter has the home court advantage. Already established. Musk is screwing it up.

[ancianita]

7. So what. There's plenty of room on the Internet to grow away from oligarchic ownership,

and spreading that democratic communications across more worlds than just ours.
Pawoo, operated from Japan since 2017, is the second largest instance of Mastodon. It has drawn users from all over the world including illustrators, anime fans, novelists, and music enthusiasts since its inception. Accumulating around 800K users, Pawoo has become a “place to enjoy creative activity and unfettered communication.” The Pawoo acquisition marks another milestone towards the building of a decentralized social network and a free, open interne

[GreenWave]

8. I should get some shuteye.

I mistook this thread at first glance for helpful time travel tips back to the Ice Age.

[ancianita]

11. Okay, then.

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=Mastodon+social+network&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8#ip=1

Night night.

[electric_blue68]

10. TY. Screengrabed for future reference.