Claudius Link<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ScienceGirl" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ScienceGirl</span></a></span> <br>First of all, wellcome 😀</p><p>I switch close to a year ago. At the beginning I missed people I followed<br>(<a href="https://fedifinder.glitch.me/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fedifinder.glitch.me/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> helps you to find others who moved). Through the distributed nature it's harder to find people by name or handle.</p><p>I used bird.makeup for some of them<br>(@twitterhandel@bird.makeup creates a virtual <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a> account which mirrors their tweets).</p><p>I struggled with the search, as you couldn't search the content of posts. <br>But while the bird search got worse (I went back a few times to find out stuff, unsuccessfully) the search here improved.<br>There now is a full text search (every account can configure if they like to be searchable or not (and the instance needs to support it)). <br>Through the distributed nature you will not search all of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> (not sure if you stumbled upon this name before. If not I'll add an explanation 😀).</p><p>I have more meaningful and "successful" interaction (e.g. found a kids book I read 40 years ago by a very vague description 😅) </p><p>Summing it up, I feel at home here 😄</p><p>P.s.: <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/Maston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Maston</span></a> is not all of the <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/fedivers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fedivers</span></a> and after some time I tried out <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://tech.lgbt/@bookwyrm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>bookwyrm</span></a></span> which is an <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/ActivePub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ActivePub</span></a> server with the focus on books and tracking reading. While it's not a mastodon instance you can still follow and interact with people there (e.g <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://bookwyrm.social/user/realn2s" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>realn2s@bookwyrm.social</span></a></span> )<br>Translated to commercial social networks it would be like you could follow and respond to people on Instagram or Facebook from within the birdside.<br>Wikipedia lists some of the other "members" of the fediverse at <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedive</span><span class="invisible">rse</span></a></p>