{"id":7463,"date":"2022-11-13T11:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T11:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/?p=7463"},"modified":"2022-11-14T13:41:22","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T13:41:22","slug":"im-on-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2022\/11\/13\/im-on-mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"I’m on Mastodon"},"content":{"rendered":"

(I\u2019m \u200b@dianeduane@mastodon.social<\/a> over there.)<\/p>\n

…Actually I\u2019ve had an account there since spring of last year, with an eye to a time when the kinds of things might start happening to Twitter that are, uh, happening now. (Sometimes it\u2019s annoying to be correct about predictions…) But it\u2019s going to start getting much heavier use now.<\/p>\n

With that in mind: if I\u2019ve got this right, here\u2019s an invite to Mastodon for you<\/a>, so that if you\u2019re interested, you can climb on board and get a sense of what\u2019s going on there. (Please note that this link deactivates on 21 Nov 2022.) …A lot of the things I normally do on Twitter are very shortly going to be moving over to the Mastodon side.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re interested in finding out more about Mastodon before jumping into it, here\u2019s a FAQ<\/a> page from their own blog. …Or here\u2019s a post about it from Danielle Navarro,<\/a> covering the subject from the data science angle. (And also, one at Wired on how to find your Twitter friends on Mastodon.<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Anyway: onward!<\/p>\n

ETA <\/b>for those looking to choose the best instance to operate from:<\/i> I’m only a newbie at this, so don’t take any of this as received wisdom. But when I signed up in \u201821, I went for the one that seemed most broad-based at the time, as a good place to start. Since then I note that (for example) @neil-gaiman<\/a> is there too: so the choice seems, on the face of it, to have been sound. Later on, it seems from the docs, one can change instances if they like. We\u2019ll see how that goes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(I\u2019m \u200b@dianeduane@mastodon.social over there.) …Actually I\u2019ve had an account there since spring of last year, with an eye to a time when the kinds of things might start happening to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,914,631],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-administrivia","category-mastodon","category-online-life-2"],"yoast_head":"\nI'm on Mastodon - Out of Ambit<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Notes from a longtime blue-check \/ blue-tick Twitterer who's eyeing the possible exits\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2022\/11\/13\/im-on-mastodon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"I'm on Mastodon - 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