After years of lurking on Twitter — barely contributing to conversations on the platform, and only using it to read tweets from creators I follow — I am trying out Mastodon for a while. I planned to do this a while ago: most people I follow on Twitter also use or cross-post to Mastodon, and it makes sense to use non-commercial alternatives where possible.
Reading blog posts through my RSS reader is excellent for keeping up with news related to my interests, but I sometimes miss some interaction and discussion on these posts. I hope to find this interaction through Mastodon, as not every blog supports Webmentions (and I do not yet have it fully implemented either).
For now, I have:
- Manually searched and followed people of which I read their blogs
- Added a link to my Mastodon profile on my main page (including ⁂)
- Verified my domain by adding
<link href="https://c.im/@pvdsp" rel="me">to the<head>of my pages
I looked into using my custom domain for Mastodon so that I could use @[email protected] as my username, but I will postpone this as it involves setting up your own Mastodon server or using a managed host (and I feel like using a custom domain is not worth yet another subscription).
I’ve heard good things about Mastodon so far, so I look forward to seeing if it is a better Twitter alternative!