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Let’s help people get off this ship

Tools to migrate to mastodon:

Archive your data and repost to mastodon:

https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data

https://github.com/FGRibreau/import-tweets-to-mastodon

Find accounts you follow on mastodon:

Browser Extension

- https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mastodon-handles-i...

Using API

- https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/ (thanks @guerrilla)

- https://www.movetodon.org/ (thanks @NelsonMinar)

- https://fedifinder.glitch.me/

- https://twitodon.com/

(Please suggest more!)

Where to start: Create an account on https://mastodon.social and go from there!

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

Will push code here! https://github.com/haxiomic/twitter-to-mastodon/




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


One more easy trick for making yourself more discoverable on Mastodon: https://blog.maartenballiauw.be/post/2022/11/05/mastodon-own...


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 .


Love it! Thank you BryantD!


As unfortunate as the current situation is, the wellspring of helpfulness is really heartwarming. Look for the helpers, as they say.


Another tool like those two with a nice UI is https://www.movetodon.org/


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?


You can follow specific accounts from another server (say follow user@la.social from you@sf.social). However currently you cannot follow another server entierly (aka. local timeline). If you want both local timelines, you have to register two accounts.


Got it. Thanks!


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.


This is good to know - thanks! I will look for something like this for Android.


Don't forget debirdify. I found that the most useful myself

https://debirdify.pruvisto.org/


unflwrs will export twitter bios, followers, following, and bookmarks, and profile pictures: unflwrs.syfaro.com


Niiice thank you!




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