[HN Gopher] Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
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Movetodon: Find your Twitter friends on Mastodon
Author : archb
Score : 60 points
Date : 2022-11-24 20:29 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (movetodon.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (movetodon.org)
| toofy wrote:
| as a point of reference, with this and fedifinder, i find about
| 300 of those who i followed on twitter.
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| it made rebuilding my network painless.
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| if you want people to find you with these tools, put your
| mastodon @username@servername in your twitter profile.
| moklick wrote:
| super handy tool :)
| nacs wrote:
| Worked great and added a few dozen people from Twitter.
| Encouraging to see people moving over.
| kornhole wrote:
| This looks like a refinement of https://fedifinder.glitch.me/.
| Great job.
| CharlesW wrote:
| Related:
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| https://twitodon.com/
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| https://fedifinder.glitch.me/
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| https://fedi.directory/
| guerrilla wrote:
| https://pruvisto.org/debirdify/
| weinzierl wrote:
| Seconded, Debirdify is awesome and totally free.
| guerrilla wrote:
| It's also interesting because it highlights what servers
| people went to. I found the breakdown for me somewhat
| enlightening. Aha, so these are the types of people I
| follow.
| amriksohata wrote:
| This wave is pointless like the move to signal from WhatsApp,
| unless a critical mass moves it will flop and they'll all be back
| on twitter
| Barrin92 wrote:
| that comparison isn't right because in reality it's about
| moving people from a single app into an open ecosystem. If
| Mastodon-like projects have success it's going to be a 30 year,
| linux-ish thing, not some attenion driven wave. Not to mention
| if you can spare a few megabytes of disk space you can do both,
| you shouldn't tell people that using Mastodon means you have to
| abandon Twitter in the first place.
| guerrilla wrote:
| It's hard to say what critical mass is, and not knowing that,
| it's hard to say it has or hasn't been reached. Half a million
| people signed up earlier this week and it's still going strong
| at a consistent ~2,000/hour. A handful of famous people have
| also moved and a few others have reserved accounts. Maybe this
| isn't the tipping point, but maybe it is. In any case, it's not
| "pointless" for the people who did move. It's community, and a
| hell of a lot less toxicity (so far anyway.)
| tlavoie wrote:
| But people are moving in quantity, because tools like this
| enable the network effect to follow them to the new place(s).
| So no, this is not pointless.
| ploum wrote:
| "Doing the good thing is pointless as long as not everyone is
| doing it" said every last man to do the bad thing in history.
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| Don't do what the world is, do what you want the world to be.
| Said the others.
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| (disclaimer : I've fully deleted Twitter and Whatsapp last
| year thanks to enough people on Mastodon and Signal. No, not
| everyone. But enough to survive).
| syx wrote:
| All these tools are great, and I've been using some myself to
| reconnect my network on the Fediverse, but after 2 weeks I've
| already started seeing people going back on Twitter, it really
| feels like it was just a phase.
| mlindner wrote:
| Mastodon doesn't do any of the things I want out of Twitter, and
| Twitter continues to function perfectly fine. So little reason to
| move. All the people I follow are still primarily (or only) on
| Twitter with a couple having mentioned mastodon backups.
| bebopcowboy wrote:
| throwawaaarrgh wrote:
| People: just text your friends. Social media is an entertainment
| venue, not real connection
| jolexxa wrote:
| wow thanks for sharing this! super convenient to hit "follow all"
| and suddenly have 80 people to follow!
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