{"id":7833,"date":"2022-11-12T14:37:33","date_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:37:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon\/"},"modified":"2022-11-12T14:37:33","modified_gmt":"2022-11-12T13:37:33","slug":"joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon\/","title":{"rendered":"Joining the herd: what\u2019s it like moving from Twitter to Mastodon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Users fleeing Elon Musk\u2019s takeover will find themselves in a different world \u2013 quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic<\/p>\n<p>Mastodon feels like the old internet. \u201cWelcome to Mastodon, where you can boost a toot from <a href=\"https:\/\/hellsite.site\/\" title=\"\">hellsite.site<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/mas.to\/\" title=\"\">mas.to<\/a>, but remember to CW politics and boot doxers or your instance might be defederated\u201d is a sentence that will make sense eventually \u2013 but is unlikely to mean anything on your first day.<\/p>\n<p>Social media startups are ten a penny, but few are so proudly distinct from the competition as the countercultural network that has gained millions of new users over the past week as<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/10\/exodus-twitter-elon-musk-possible-bankruptcy\" title=\"\"> Elon Musk triggers an exodus from Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/12\/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/bbf696513d23e10286851175bea27cf1e8849e8d\/0_63_2362_1417\/master\/2362.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b6038693a9a0f744fa13c985ef430ed1\" title=\"Joining the herd: what\u2019s it like moving from Twitter to Mastodon?\" \/>Users fleeing Elon Musk\u2019s takeover will find themselves in a different world \u2013 quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic<br \/>\nMastodon feels like the old internet. \u201cWelcome to Mastodon, where you can boost a toot from hellsite.site to mas.to, but remember to CW politics and boot doxers or your instance might be defederated\u201d is a sentence that will make sense eventually \u2013 but is unlikely to mean anything on your first day.<br \/>\nSocial media startups are ten a penny, but few are so proudly distinct from the competition as the countercultural network that has gained millions of new users over the past week as Elon Musk triggers an exodus from Twitter. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Users fleeing Elon Musk\u2019s takeover will find themselves in a different world \u2013 quixotic, communal and defiantly democratic Mastodon feels like the old internet. \u201cWelcome to Mastodon, where you can boost a toot from hellsite.site to mas.to, but remember to CW politics and boot doxers or your instance might be defederated\u201d is a sentence that &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/12\/joining-the-herd-whats-it-like-moving-from-twitter-to-mastodon\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Joining the herd: what\u2019s it like moving from Twitter to Mastodon?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}