If you came to #mastodon as part of the #greatMigration or as a Twitter refugee this post and thread by @chargrille is a good read kinda puts it into perspective.

In my mind Twitter and Bluesky are very much synonyms for everything bad about legacy social media that #musk 's ownership only accelerated.

https://publicsquare.global/@chargrille@progressives.social/110286091709707809

Newsie.social is 6 months old!

Newsie started as a refuge for #journalists and #news orgs fleeing Twitter during the #greatmigration.

Now, it's a large bustling fediverse server with just as many news consumers as news people!

Join the conversation and stay up-to-date on the latest happenings. 🗞️ #media #journalism

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Want to move your @mastodon account to Newsie?

See: https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving/

Time to get ready for that next #greatmigration wave.

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Trump Looks to Ditch His Own Social Media Site and return to Twitter

The ex-president is planning his first tweets with a few months to go on his Truth Social contract

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/donald-trump-ditch-truth-social-for-twitter-facebook-1234665307/

https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-truth-social-twitter-facebook-tmtg-1850017818

#twitter
#socialmedia
#trump

#crossbronxexpressway a gash thru #thebronx #whiteflight #greatmigration #robertmoses #urbandestruction #capthecrossbronx #nyc

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

"advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century."

Instance: https://mastodon.mit.edu/about

Account: https://me.dm/@medium

Announcement: https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11

About: https://medium.com/about

#GreatMigration #welcome

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Medium

"an open platform where over 100 million readers come to find insightful and dynamic thinking [...] creating a new model for digital publishing."

Instance: https://me.dm/explore

Account: https://me.dm/@medium

Announcement: https://blog.medium.com/medium-embraces-mastodon-19dcb873eb11

About: https://medium.com/about

#GreatMigration #welcome

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Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

“As the world’s largest computing society, ACM strengthens the profession's collective voice”

Instance: https://mastodon.acm.org/explore

Account: @ACM

Announcement: https://www.acm.org/articles/membernet/2022/membernet-12222022#SOCIAL-MEDIA

About: https://www.acm.org/about-acm/about-the-acm-organization

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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I guess given the #GreatMigration we should have seen this last-minute substitution coming. 🎅🦣

Mozilla

"Mozilla puts people before profit, creating products, technologies and programs that make the internet healthier for everyone."

Instance: https://mozilla.social/ (coming "early 2023")

Account: @mconnor (Working on project)

Announcement:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

About: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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Mozilla

"Mozilla puts people before profit, creating products, technologies and programs that make the internet healthier for everyone."

Instance: https://mozilla.social/ (coming "early 2023")

Account: @mconnor (Working on project)

Announcement:
https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

About: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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Open Source Initiative (OSI)

"As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the Open source Software ecosystem."

Instance: https://social.opensource.org/

Account: @osi (Org Official), @ed (Director official)

Announcement:
https://blog.opensource.org/how-osi-got-to-mastodon/

About: https://opensource.org/about

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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Open Source Initiative (OSI)

"As steward of the Open Source Definition, we set the foundation for the Open source Software ecosystem."

Instance: https://social.opensource.org/

Account: @osi (Org Official), @ed (Director official)

Announcement:
https://blog.opensource.org/how-osi-got-to-mastodon/

About: https://opensource.org/about

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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Open Street Map (OSM)

It's Wikipedia for maps! OSM "provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices". It's one of those projects you unwittingly rely on every day.

Instance: https://en.osm.town/ (since 2018!)

Account: @amapanda

Announcement:
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/09/12/en-osm-town-announcing-a-new-mastodon-instance-for-osm-en/

About: https://www.openstreetmap.org/about

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon (but really they were here 4 years before me, so...)
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Open Street Map (OSM)

It's Wikipedia for maps! OSM "provides map data for thousands of websites, mobile apps, and hardware devices". It's one of those projects you unwittingly rely on every day.

Instance: https://en.osm.town/ (since 2018!)

Account: @amapanda

Announcement:
https://blog.openstreetmap.org/2018/09/12/en-osm-town-announcing-a-new-mastodon-instance-for-osm-en/

About: https://www.openstreetmap.org/about

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon (but really they were here 4 years before me, so...)
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The Internet Archive

Preserves our digital heritage to the tune of 100Bs of web pages and 10Ms of digitized media items. Home of the #WaybackMachine

Instance: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive

Account: @internetarchive

Announcement:
https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/

About: https://archive.org/about/

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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The Internet Archive

Preserves our digital heritage to the tune of 100Bs of web pages and 10Ms of digitized media items. Home of the #WaybackMachine

Instance: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive

Account: @internetarchive

Announcement:
https://blog.archive.org/2022/11/13/we-have-added-a-mastodon-server/

About: https://archive.org/about/

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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We are starting to see Serious Credible Organizations joining the #Fediverse ✨. Most encouragingly, some of them are running their own instances, which is How It Is Supposed To Work.

This will be an occasionally updated thread listing notable instances & accounts.

HT @liaizon for pointing me in the right direction 🙏

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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We are starting to see Serious Credible Organizations joining the #Fediverse ✨. Most encouragingly, some of them are running their own instances, which is How It Is Supposed To Work.

This will be an occasionally updated thread listing notable instances & accounts.

HT @liaizon for pointing me in the right direction 🙏

#GreatMigration #welcometomastodon
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Good to see some old Bird friends! #greatmigration

If anybody's wondering why I have 2 active #masto accounts as an experienced masto user (my accounts say November 2022 but I've been casually using mastodon for 2 years before the #GreatMigration) it's bc I've become really fond of both #hachyderm and #corteximplant ; they both have totally different and yet super valuable aspects to their instance environments going for them