I've decided to ACTIVELY decouple from Twitter: Every day, I go back and DM at least 10 of my followers, telling them I've moved here and to follow me here instead (I remove them as followers after that DM). A number of them have set up accounts as a result.
Please do the same if you're more active here than on #Twitter That's how you can help the #twittermigration
@TNLNYC I left my account over there up for about 7 months encouraging others to exit the platform, then finally left. I’m glad I’m out of there now.
Welcome to Mastodon!
@yassinelanda I'd say maybe 1 out of 10, if that much... At least, I can say that I did everything to make people know that I've moved. There are many other interesting people here so I'm developing a different following.
@vitriolix slowly removing the value of my account. The fewer followers I have, the less the value is so eventually I get o 0 followers which makes the account worthless
@TNLNYC I didn't have a lot of followers. I requested a download of my history and after I verified it was good I nuked the account. I don't miss that fermenting septic tank and the spoiled #MeNoSulk. How he is 'running' the birdsite will be a master class for future students on how NOT to run a business.
Here's what I send:
Thanks for following me on Twitter but I'm now moving all this activity over to Mastodon at https://mastodon.social/@TNLNYC so this will be my last message to you on Twitter. Looking forward to seeing you over there. I will remove you from my follower list on Twitter as I'm sending a similar DM to every single one of my followers and working down the list :) Hope you're well and see you on Mastodon.
@TNLNYC@jacklerner I agree, and I also believe that "Boost if you agree" tends not to be welcomed on Mastodon, it being one of the more annoying Twitter phenomena.
@TNLNYC It is hard to leave. There are so many links and so many threads that lead to it. And, when I do get there, I always leave angry and feeling like I need a shower.
When I was quitting smoking I remember sometimes I'd break down and end up smoking half a pack at a bar, then waking up the next day like, "ewww God, I stink. WTF? ack!".
yet, 2 weeks later, I'd break down again. I finally had to move to a city where not everyone smoked!
@coldfish Fully agree. I'm now trying to get the parts I miss (the friends who were following me and engaging in friendly banter with on Twitter) to move here to make that town perfect :)
@TNLNYC I tried with some people and got some really nasty responds, unfortunately many people don't seem to understand that they are being used as part of a new fascist movement and enabling it by paying for it because "it has 10s of thousands of followers" as one "progressive left" member told me before he blocked me!
@faab64 I guess by removing them from my followers' list, I shield myself from nasty responses (since I don't follow them and they don't follow me :) )
@TNLNYC Congratulations on the effort. It's also great that so many people are setting up their own instances/servers. That way the Fediverse grows both individually and collectively.
@TNLNYC@Gargron I did the same, except I publicly messaged people I follow instead, letting them know I wouldn’t be seeing their tweets after the free api access was shut down. I encouraged them to move here (even gave out mastodon.social invites) and a few did
@TNLNYC I should do this. At one point, I pinned a post on my bird site account, letting people know where to find me but soon deleted: Musk’s Twitter Nazi’s began to deactivate accounts who used any known Mastodon links. 🙄
@gadgetboy Please do. It's not my individual action that will make a difference. However, if more people are doing the same thing, then we have a chance of building a better social media world.
@TNLNYC well I think mastodon can be equally as poisonous as twitter. I just got sick of hearing ‘twitter’ and ‘Elon musk’ together. Let’s not fool ourselves that mastodon isn’t an echo chamber as well, just it’s more agreeable than twitter ;)
@thomas_klopf True but you can block particular words or topics, instead of people altogether. This allows you to customize your experience, which makes Mastodon vastly superior to other social media platforms.
@TNLNYC Sounds like you had more success with this approach than I did.
I announced a couple of times on each platform when I’d be leaving Twitter and Facebook and that I had moved here (linked to my account and everything).
Zero family followed me here and I think there’s a total of… two?… friends who showed up here after that. From hundreds of connections on each site.
But, you can lead a horse to water, blah blah blah. 🤷♂️
@reay I did the whole announce publicly, delete all other tweets, and follow everyone you followed who moved over on here. But now getting to the laggards in my following by actively asking them to leave Twitter :)
@reay I suspect people go there because that is still where a number of influential people (musicians, athletes, actors, politicians) and organizations are still hanging out.
It's a weird situation: the organizations/stars won't leave because that's where the audience is. And the audience won't leave because that's where the organizations/stars are.
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