Straightforward to Set Up a Mastodon Account to Mirror Your Twitter Account

[1.] I discovered an “occasion,” which is to say a spot that may host us, and which had moderation guidelines that we might take care of. For us, it was liberdon.com, “a Mastodon occasion for libertarians, ancaps, anarchists, voluntaryists, agorists, and so forth to pontificate with out concern of reprisal from jack or zuck.” I am not a libertarian, however I am considerably libertarianish and usually libertarian-friendly, so I felt snug with utilizing their companies and thought they’d really feel snug with internet hosting me.

I am positive there are many customers there with whom I would disagree on many issues, however that is doubtless true in a technique or one other of most different such hosts, and for that matter of Twitter and Fb; and I do agree with them about being minimalist as to server-based moderation guidelines. There are in all probability a number of cases you will discover which are equally snug for you.

[2.] I then arrange an account on the host I selected, which was fairly simple. The one complication was that it required an e-mail deal with that wasn’t on @gmail.com, @outlook.com, @hotmail.com, or @legislation.ucla.edu, apparently as a result of it had run into spam issues with these domains. (Undecided how @legislation.ucla.edu ended up on that listing, however there it’s.) No downside: I had a @yahoo.com e-mail account that I used (or I might have simply set one up for that).

[3.] I then went to moa.get together whereas signed on to my Twitter account and my Mastodon account; I clicked on just a few locations (which have been self-explanatory), and now my Tweets find yourself on my Mastodon account, and vice versa.

This works notably properly for me as a result of we auto-feed our weblog, through its RSS feed, to Twitter, so now all submit titles and submit hyperlinks additionally ended up posted on Mastodon as properly.

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Because it occurs, we at the moment have over 23,000 Twitter followers, and underneath 100 Mastodon followers; however we have solely been on Mastodon for in the future, and we’re glad to have any further readers that we are able to get—particularly since establishing was so easy. And whereas there is likely to be who-knows-what flareups with varied Mastodon websites (whether or not our host web site or in any other case) attempting to dam us sooner or later, in the event that they disapprove of our content material (simply as there is likely to be with Fb or Twitter), for now it appears to me like a worthwhile experiment for us. Maybe it is likely to be for you as properly.

UPDATE: I up to date paragraph 1 to make clearer what I believe it is necessary for the host and me to agree about, and what it is not.