My instutition is willing to join Mastodon soon. However, one of the reasons holding it back on the bird site is the difficulty of setting up cross-posting now that Musk has closed twitter's API... does anyone have a workaround for this? @wikidata @egonw @academicchatter #AcademicMastodon #mastodon #HowToMastodon #MastodonTip #MastodonTips #FediTip #feditips

Wow, I just discovered that @wikidata queries can be used to look for Mastodon accounts...! (@egonw https://chem-bla-ics.blogspot.com/2022/11/finding-mastodon-accounts-with-wikidata.html) Here's a list of universities with Mastodon accounts: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Finstitution%20%3FinstitutionLabel%20%3Fmastodon%20WHERE%20%7B%0A%20%20%3Finstitution%20wdt%3AP31%2Fwdt%3AP279%2a%20wd%3AQ31855%20%3B%0A%20%20%20%20wdt%3AP4033%20%3Fmastodon%20.%0A%20%20SERVICE%20wikibase%3Alabel%20%7B%20bd%3AserviceParam%20wikibase%3Alanguage%20%22%5BAUTO_LANGUAGE%5D%2Cen%22.%20%7D%0A%7D%0A
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@tuckerteague it would be best to use it like a web browser bookmark. Because you can go back and look at your favorites. Yes, the author will see that you favorited it. But we won't see on a timeline how many people favorited it. If your intent was simply more exposure for the toot, it's best to reply to it, with relevant hashtags, it'll help Federate it better. #HowtoMastodon #makingfriends #TwitterMigration

@KuJoe

I use the Safari interface on my iPad, and it's great! Can follow hashtags on it, which is Major Advantage

#MastodonNewbies #HowToMastodon

I feel like I need to find an #instance on Mastodon where folks in my local timeline would generally want to see most/all of my posts. But I feel like the folks on the science/astronomy/STEM instance aren’t going to want to see a lot of leftist/socialist/anti-capitalism stuff and vice versa. And then there’s the writing and poetry and photography and…etc.

The general instances seem so…big and don’t have that concentration of specialized posting I enjoy in the local feed. I know ppl say that what instance you’re on doesn’t matter that much, but I don’t want to feel like I’m putting out a bunch of stuff that others on my instance think is spammy. Is my Twitter brain viewing this wrong? Do I just pick an instance and #CW half my posts? #newbie #TwitterMigration #mastodon #MastodonTips #advice #HowtoMastodon

@BlockMeAmadeus I think (b/c I am just figuring this out) that you can’t exactly with the idea that it promoted some of the bad behavior on Twitter? #twittermigration #HowtoMastodon

I still enjoy this funny post I saw on Reddit about Mastodon

But thanks to all the "senior" Mastodoers who are helping us newbies. ❤️

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How to Get Started on Mastodon
Interested in trying the social network everyone's flocking to? Here's what you need to know to find your way around and build community.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/

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Perhaps this will help those of us newer to this platform.

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-03_what-i-know-about-mastodon/

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Been here forever but still figuring things out.

Thinking of moving Tabletop Gaming Deals here as well, as a separate account. I figure people don't want deal spam from me on this account.

How does one set up a second account and is there a way to keep both open like Tweetdeck for twitter.

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