“In the wake of that change, X competitor BlueSky announced that it had seen more than 100,000 new signups.”
https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/bluesky-x-twitter-elon-musk-block-b2630894.html
“It didn’t even crash when all of Brazil showed up in August.”
https://mastodon.online/@alexwild/113322661686107887
We might be seeing some new folks show up today, so let’s all give them a warm welcome!
#fediverse #twitter #x #welcome
If you’d like to share a concise, beginner-friendly introduction to #Mastodon with your friends considering to leave X, give this a try!
https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/how-to-join-mastodon/
Thanks everyone for sharing this!
And mind you, I wrote this about Mastodon because that’s what I have been using for the past nearly two years.
I also made https://jointhefediverse.net, but wanted to follow that up with what I have learned.
If anyone has a good, simple, non-technical guide for other platforms, please do share it, I would love to link to it!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online bsky is crashing a bit right now.
Truth be told, I am looking into adding bsky support to this software too but its too different and a lot of work
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online I shared this on X 😀
@drfootleg Ha, thank you, hope this inspires someone!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online It taught me about author tags too. Now worked out how to implement them in my blog hosted on Blogger.
@drfootleg Nice! If you ever want to write about how you did it, I’d love to link to it!
@stefan@stefanbohacek.online Article written! https://adventures-with-pi.blogspot.com/2024/10/setting-up-author-attribution-for.html