Dr. Guillermo Power @gpowerf@social.cleverlibre.org

My "publish" button is now like this...

Too real.

A History of Recent Twitter Migration to the Fediverse

1 month ago: Mastodon? No thanks. You have to have a Ph.D in Hackerology to use it.

3 weeks ago: I don't like this Mastodon... But if I have to... *sigh*

2 weeks ago: Wait. This does really cool things like let me edit posts. So genius. Is this free?

1 week ago: OMG! There's other apps! Now I know why there's a Fediverse!

Today: Comrades—let's fight for our freedom! Cast off the chains of Big Social!

How do you make a thread on Mastodon?

Pretty much the same way as on Twitter, with one difference. You compose the first post, publish it, then reply to it, then reply to the reply, and so on. But there's one difference. If the first post is Public, you can make all the others Unlisted. This way, people can follow the thread by clicking on the first post, but their timeline isn't clogged up with all of the other posts.

[A short thread]

Nice to see someone keeping an archive of Elon's #Twitter fiasco.
#elonmusk
https://twitterisgoinggreat.com/

Stalker 1: Path of Fire (MM Software Productions, 1994) #DOSGaming

for security and privacy purposes, please ensure that you do not use a computer

I think it's glorious that there's now a Mastodon server operated by people who used to work for Twitter (macaw.social). I could have never imagined it when I started in 2016.

Everyone: The Fediverse and calling them toots was a bad idea, but I'm having fun!

Absolutely no-one: I remember the original Twitter logo, which was totally normal and not off-putting to potential users AT ALL.

I have stopped
the microservices
that were in
the infrastructure

and which
you were probably
using
for authentication

Forgive me
they were 1000+
so many
and so wasteful

Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it becomes more popular than the birdsite.

https://twittoons.com/44