Twitter is transforming into X, as the site’s former bird logo has now been replaced by an official new X logo. Elon Musk, who owns the transformed social media site, began signaling the change early Sunday morning with a series of tweets, starting with one that said, “and soon we shall bid adieu to the twitter brand and, gradually, all the birds.”
Is there a recognized excellent guide for non-techy-people-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon?
I don’t twit, but I can see how it would still baffle the average user.
https://joinfediverse.wiki/Getting_started_with_your_Fediverse_account
Also, if they miss quote-tweets there’s Firefish, which is still on ActivityPub and can talk to Mastodon, that has quote-posts.
Link? Google doesn’t seem to know about it and neither do I
@garrettw87 http://joinfirefish.org
Oh, so it’s basically one and the same with Calckey, being the software powering it. Gotcha.
@garrettw87 Calckey rebranded as Firefish last week. And managed a way smoother transition than Xwitter has.
Well, it’s not hard to do lol
I don’t know about guides, but I do agree it can be a little confusing. Trying to work out what instances are and which one you should join is difficult until you understand the concept and a little about how the tech works - it’s the same with the threadiverse. Realising it’s like email domains is what made it click for me.
And if you personally ever decide to get into Mastodon: you’re on kbin already, which federates with Mastodon and has support for microblogging, so you don’t even need to do anything new - you just need to start using that functionality on kbin!
Yeah I just know a lot of people who barely understand passwords, and moving to a new platform that isn’t exactly the same is going to be a frustrating exercise which ends in them staying on the old platform. It needs to look, act, and feel like twitter in all the ways they’re used to for it to carry the largest group of non-savvy users.
And remember they don’t read manuals or FAQs or anything, so . . maybe a viral tiktok or youtube something, I dunno.
There are several out there.