Hi - Twitter is a garbage fire. I am going to try to use this platform more. Love,-Bing.
@Bing_Chris Welcome! Glad to see you here.
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You are not wrong. #welcome to the Fediverse
@Bing_Chris All Twitter refugees welcome. I announced last week I am deleting my old X profile after abandoning it over a year ago. The core of the #InfoSec world is here and that combined with more honest and meaningful engagement made the decision easy for me.
@chetwisniewski @Bing_Chris “Honest and meaningful engagement” has to be one of the best ways to describe my experience here so far. I don’t think it had really occurred to me how much of that had disappeared from Twitter until I deleted my account earlier this year. It’s so refreshing!
@Bing_Chris Every tweet gets at least one like from a bot.
@Bing_Chris Welcome. You made it out.
@Bing_Chris X continues to be a dumpster fire.
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Welcome, welcome!
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Welcome aboard. We're glad you are here.
Stick around, have a seat, take your shoes off, and put your feet up,
@Bing_Chris Heyo and welcome!
@Bing_Chris Glad to see you here! I'm sure you'll prefer it :-)
Hi Chris, welcome!
I'm glad you escaped the garbage fire!
As there's no algorithm here, it's a good idea to boost YOUR OWN posts after like 12 hours, when folks on the other side of the planet wake up and join the feed
I really hope you'll like it here. There may be less numbers but there's often more interaction, in other words: quality over quantity!
@Bing_Chris @nellie_m This is really good advice for journalists, in particular.
There are 38 timezones, so should I boost mu post 38 times, for peak viewing time in each zone?
@Bing_Chris Welcome to the Other Side
Glad more journalists are making the switch.
@Bing_Chris Twitter is bad, and even if parts of it are good, its owner seems to have some fascist-adjacent ideas and likes the idea of using his platform to promote them.
Mastodon can be used to for anything, including bigotry, but you won't see it if you're on a mainstream instance that blocks offensive content. Mastodon is just better.
@Bing_Chris Super, welcome aboard!!
@Bing_Chris welcome! I'm told that hashtags in your posts will really help with engagement across the fediverse.
@Bing_Chris Good to see you here!!
@Bing_Chris Hello and welcome
@Bing_Chris Welcome Chris
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What's Twitter?
Welcome!
@Bing_Chris Hi Chris - welcome!
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Seems prudent.
@Bing_Chris X is not a fire anymore. Now just garbage. Welcome home.
@Bing_Chris Welcome!! Be patient. It takes a bit to become accustomed to this platform. Boost often. Use hashtags. Sort your follows into lists. Enjoy a more relaxed pace.
@Bing_Chris Welcome Aboard! I’m also going to follow you on my more newsy feed on mastodon.social. It’s great seeing more journalists come aboard!
@Bing_Chris Welcome! We need more from your profession - Spread the word.
@Bing_Chris glad to see such a fine journalist here. We need more!
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Be the change you want to see in the world.
- #SupportTheFediverse
@Bing_Chris welcome!
@Bing_Chris @dangillmor one of my biggest disappointments has been how few journalists moved over, but I just couldn’t bring myself to stick with Twitter. Glad to see a trickle migration activity over, and I hope more follow!
@Bing_Chris ¡Bienvenido!
@Bing_Chris hello and welcome!
@Bing_Chris if you can add a link to your account here on your routers page at https://www.reuters.com/authors/christopher-bing/ then people will be able to see that it's really you.
See https://joinmastodon.org/verification about how that works.
@Bing_Chris Heya, looking forward to seeing your Toots
super. Please invite your colleagues.
@Bing_Chris hi chris, good to have you here!
@Bing_Chris I'm sorry to hear about your brother Chandler.
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Yes, please, Twitter is in the "wade through septic tank to find a dropped ring" phase
@Bing_Chris Hi there!
@Bing_Chris hi!!! Welcome!
@Bing_Chris Welcome to the fediverse! I hope you find it stimulating and productive!
@Bing_Chris Welcome aboard!
Welcome! If you want more people to be able to find your posts, two suggestions:
One -- Use appropriate #Hashtags. There is no algorithm, and the search function on Mastodon is a bit different, so using hashtags makes your posts easier to find.
Two -- The default #Privacy setting for your account is to be NOT searchable. If you want your posts to be searchable, you need to change your settings (See image and alt-text).
@Bing_Chris Welcome to the non-narcissistic-billionaire-controlled social media platform.
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I wish there were more journalists noting that. I guess we probably assume we are immune to algorithmic manipulation. "I know when I see non authentic content".
A place where people talk rather than shout. Welcome!