Are you like me and haven’t completely stopped going to the bird site because some of the bird site people you follow aren’t on Mastodon/? Then try Bird Makeup:
• Enter the bird site handle you want to follow on Mastodon
• Bird Makeup will give you back a Mastodon handle
• Copy the Mastodon handle into Mastodon’s Search field
• The search will reveal the person’s Mastodon handle and an option to follow or subscribe
My experience with Bird Makeup
• It will take about 24-36 hours before the person’s bird site posts start appearing in your Mastodon Home timeline
• The person’s tweets-turned-toots will be batched, appearing in a cluster of successive toots and not in real time
• Jpeg attached is an example, using Former US Ambassador to Russia, Michael McFau, PhD's bird site handle turned Mastodon handle and how his tweets-now-toots appear on my Home timeline.
• FYI, McFaul appears to already have @mcfaul account, but it doesn’t seem to be current or active, so Bird Makeup has been a better option for me.
@edcasabar The bird.makeup server is obviously blocked on many instances or my handle is blocked on bird.makeup, considering the former being more likely. So as with other services like beta.mstdn.cf this is a broken or dead end, folks simply have to move here.
@edcasabar @mcfaul Very interesting! I just added a couple of accounts that I've missed. Will see how it works out, thanks.