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How about dropping Twitter for Mastodon entirely? What are you really leaving behind, anyway?

scandox 10y ago
The only reason I use Twitter is to keep in touch with the Irish literary scene really. They're hardly going to be on Mastodon anytime soon. So pretty much everything.
CivilianZero 10y ago
All the time spent building your network and all the people who would not be moving with you. So...the network and the social part of a social network. I have an account on both, at the moment (three separate Mastodon instances, actually).
- scandox 10y ago
  Is it necessary to have different accounts to communicate across instances? Surely not?
  - dingdingdang 10y ago
    Interested in this point too!
  - swampangel 10y ago
    It's not necessary, one account lets you reply/boost/communicate with anyone. But if you find an instance catering to a community/topic you like, you may want to create an account there to fully participate in that instance's local timeline.
frou_dh 10y ago
Customer service reps. ^Bob
tomjen3 10y ago
99.999% of all the people worth following? Seriously are there any even slightly famous people who are primarily/mainly Mastodon? I am not talking just actors, but I follow people like Julia Galef and Joel Spolsky and don't see a point in a social network with people like them or my friends and family.
- mxuribe 10y ago
  I seem to recall there being a google doc, or some such list of semi-famous people on a gnu social or mastodon instance...Can't find that list, but here are a few on the core mastodon instance: * https://mastodon.social/@brendaneich https://mastodon.social/@brendaneich * https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt * https://mastodon.social/@auerbach https://mastodon.social/@auerbach * https://mastodon.social/@thegrugq https://mastodon.social/@thegrugq * https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 * https://mastodon.social/@aral https://mastodon.social/@aral Reference: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e... But, hey, freedom means that you can also just choose to stay on twitter or any similar network, right?
  - farless 10y ago
    I think you're referring to this google doc [1]. I found it linked through this source [2]. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RijFCUasnrtZdLO2BOrkN1H-1i0wGj8YzdtF8FvciGE/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RijFCUasnrtZdLO2BOrk... [2] https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mas...

The only reason I use Twitter is to keep in touch with the Irish literary scene really. They're hardly going to be on Mastodon anytime soon. So pretty much everything.

CivilianZero 10y ago

All the time spent building your network and all the people who would not be moving with you. So...the network and the social part of a social network. I have an account on both, at the moment (three separate Mastodon instances, actually).

scandox 10y ago
Is it necessary to have different accounts to communicate across instances? Surely not?
- dingdingdang 10y ago
  Interested in this point too!
- swampangel 10y ago
  It's not necessary, one account lets you reply/boost/communicate with anyone. But if you find an instance catering to a community/topic you like, you may want to create an account there to fully participate in that instance's local timeline.

frou_dh 10y ago

Customer service reps. ^Bob

tomjen3 10y ago

99.999% of all the people worth following? Seriously are there any even slightly famous people who are primarily/mainly Mastodon? I am not talking just actors, but I follow people like Julia Galef and Joel Spolsky and don't see a point in a social network with people like them or my friends and family.

mxuribe 10y ago
I seem to recall there being a google doc, or some such list of semi-famous people on a gnu social or mastodon instance...Can't find that list, but here are a few on the core mastodon instance: * https://mastodon.social/@brendaneich https://mastodon.social/@brendaneich * https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt https://mastodon.social/@bcrypt * https://mastodon.social/@auerbach https://mastodon.social/@auerbach * https://mastodon.social/@thegrugq https://mastodon.social/@thegrugq * https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000 * https://mastodon.social/@aral https://mastodon.social/@aral Reference: https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e8abb1 https://hackernoon.com/mastodon-is-dead-in-the-water-888c10e... But, hey, freedom means that you can also just choose to stay on twitter or any similar network, right?
- farless 10y ago
  I think you're referring to this google doc [1]. I found it linked through this source [2]. [1] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RijFCUasnrtZdLO2BOrkN1H-1i0wGj8YzdtF8FvciGE/edit#gid=0 https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RijFCUasnrtZdLO2BOrk... [2] https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b https://hackernoon.com/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mas...