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🧵How to migrate to Mastodon step-by-step
What is Mastodon? It is a social media app that many people are moving to instead of Twitter. It is like Twitter in some ways, and different in others.
It is a non-profit and volunteer project so not as polished. But it works well.
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Deadline: Weds 25 March 2026
ALT M8 Woodside Viaducts consultation
A once in a generation opportunity to reconnect Glasgow to itself.
Please support the "remove" option in Transport Scotland's consultation.
removethem8.org.uk/
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I've tried it and it mostly seems to work. My worry is that it follows the twitter model: venture capitalists are funding it, and down the line they will want to make a profit and it will go the way of facebook, twitter, and every other capitalist social media
Mastodon is at 1.8m monthly active users and has real search now. No question that building a new account is hassle, but the alternative is handing power to Musk which is worse. Also we could wake up one day to find this place doesn't work any more.
Musk's decided to charge for the twitter API so all the fun bots are about to die.
This week is also your last change to use movetoREMOVETHISdonREMOVETHIS[dot]org to automatically find your twitter friends elsewhere
The #GoBike Strathclyde cycle campaign has had a hiccup and ended up without a committee. There should be an EGM in March to sort this out. I for one will be stepping up.
If you'd be prepared to help and you're not on the mailing list, drop us a line at [email protected]
Big thanks to Elon Musk honestly. Although he misleadingly frames it as "your" fault, what he is explaining here is that Twitter's algorithm is designed to pour oil on every fire it sees.
Some of us have been pointing out how dangerous that is for years now.
ALT Elon Musk tweets "Trashing accounts that you hate will cause our algorithm to show you more of those accounts, as it is keying off of your interactions. Basically saying if you love trashing *that* account, then you will probably also love trashing *this* account. Not actually wrong lol."
We've heard a lot about disinformation in the last few years, but far too little about the structural problems with corporate social media.
They've done huge damage to our society, and it's time for change. Luckily, one deranged billionaire has made that really really obvious.
My twitter password was found "on the dark web" by my password manager on Jan 1st. Recommend changing your password and also anywhere else you used the same password + email combo.
Highly recommend a password manager, generally. I use dashlane.
elk dot zone is a cool twitter-like way of using masto. Still in alpha, but worth a peak. Need an account on a masto server.
You know a bunch of journalists are still banned from here for criticising Musk?
The game now is tilting the scale - unbanning the far right, banning / shadowbanning critics.
The genius is that Twitter can tilt the scale invisibly. You'll never know for sure.