Joining mastodon is a great time to establish new habits and a new information diet.
**However** - if there is someone only on Twitter that you really want in your feed, you can "bring them over" via birdsite.live.
Just search for @someusername@beta.birdsite.live replacing someusername with the person you want to bring over.
For me, I have a private News List that is made up of journalists, which I will recreate over here as well.
@ozten that's really cool. Although "Instance saturation: 702%" 😜
@wiredfire @mossop If the issue is seeing updates in your feed, it took a while but they started showing up.
I will reply to myself with a warning as well... it loads old posts so your feed will get blown out for a bit 😅
@ozten well this is excellent news!
@ozten aaaah it's suffering a fediverse hug of death right now 😅
So that’s why I can’t find @hfxexaminer@beta.birdsite.live
@ozten Trying this out! I have a couple of people I'd love to keep up with.
@ozten this is actually very cool. Thanks for the tip!
I’ve bookmarked this to boost later when the site starts working again 😀
So everyone knows, this instance is not production and the owner will probably shut it down with the sustained load.
Check out their readme on the GitHub
@Jeff thanks for the heads up! It is a very cool experiment
@ozten Now this is interesting. Will check it out. Thank you.
@ozten awesome. Thank you
@ozten oh this sounds perfect. I have a few friends nervous to make the jump to a new app
@ozten this is really handy information, thank you 👍
Warning: birdsite.live will import a lot of old content from each user, so your timeline will be filled up with old content.
Also, nothing will happen immediately after you follow, so be patient.