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Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by haxiomic on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:07PM (#34040445)
Let’s help people get off this ship

Tools to migrate to mastodon:

Find accounts you follow on mastodon

- https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

- https://twitodon.com/

I hear twitter are limiting API access, I’m going to start writing a browser extension this eve to copy your posts over

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by NelsonMinar on Sunday December 18, 2022 @01:19PM (#34040661)
Another tool like those two with a nice UI is https://www.movetodon.org/
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by guerrilla on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:07PM (#34041503)
Don't forget debirdify. I found that the most useful myself

https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by BryantD on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:39PM (#34041982)
In-browser tool for creating an HTML version of your Twitter archives: https://tinysubversions.com/twitter-archive/make-your-own/

Easy tool for making your own linktree clone: https://glitch.com/glitch-in-bio

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by haxiomic on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:43PM (#34042031)
Love it! Thank you BryantD!
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by BryantD on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:46PM (#34042065)
As unfortunate as the current situation is, the wellspring of helpfulness is really heartwarming. Look for the helpers, as they say.
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by BryantD on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:14PM (#34042550)
One more easy trick for making yourself more discoverable on Mastodon: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by mauforonda on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:25PM (#34046376)
Oh this is nice. I made a similar tool to search twitter archives a few weeks back https://observablehq.com/d/2f43e70f2168ddab . You can see mine to get a feeling for how it looks https://observablehq.com/@mauforonda/my-tweets .
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by Shank on Sunday December 18, 2022 @02:50PM (#34042114)
unflwrs will export twitter bios, followers, following, and bookmarks, and profile pictures: unflwrs.syfaro.com
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by haxiomic on Sunday December 18, 2022 @03:05PM (#34042376)
Niiice thank you!
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by dr_kiszonka on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:31PM (#34046432)
Thanks for the links!

Do you know if it is possible to subscribe (?) to two Mastodon servers at once? Say I am at a San Francisco server but also want to see what people post on an LA server, is there a straight forward way to do that or do I need to maintain two separate accounts on both servers?

Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by emaro on Sunday December 18, 2022 @10:18PM (#34047981)
You can follow specific accounts from another server (say follow [email protected] from [email protected]). However currently you cannot follow another server entierly (aka. local timeline). If you want both local timelines, you have to register two accounts.
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by dr_kiszonka on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:46PM (#34060016)
Got it. Thanks!
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by BryantD on Monday December 19, 2022 @01:31PM (#34055696)
Some clients allow for this. I use Toot on iOS and I can swipe to get to the local timelines I’ve configured, as if they were another account for me.
Re:Promotion of alternative social platforms policy by dr_kiszonka on Monday December 19, 2022 @07:48PM (#34060032)
This is good to know - thanks! I will look for something like this for Android.