When I first joined Mastodon, I was excited to learn that fedifinder and debirdify can help find my Twitter friends on Mastodon. Both are web-based tools that search your follows and/or followers on Twitter for possible Mastodon accounts, then export the results to a CSV file. First thing I'd recommend doing? Find your …

After moving from Twitter to Mastodon, I wrote a blog post about how aliases can help us keep a consistent social media presence even if we change servers. This means that even though dbatools is currently using the fosstodon.org server as [email protected], I'll be linking [email protected] on all of our …

Just recently, I was presenting at a conference and when I got to the intro slide, I realized how weird it is that Twitter will no longer be a part of that. I used to dedicate a whole slide saying "Find me on Twitter, I'm @cl" and now ¯\(ツ)/¯. Thing is, I found a server I like so far but what if I move? What …

Mastodon feels like the 2007 Internet -- it's exciting and hasn't been plagued by SEO-gaming websites and the familiar "five sites screenshotting each other" effect. Initially, I was pretty gutted by the sale of Twitter but now I see that what I was afraid of losing connections with my friends. Fortunately, …