Alistair Davidson | @[email protected]

@[email protected]

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

🧵How to migrate to Mastodon step-by-step

What is Mastodon? It is a social media app that many people are moving to instead of Twitter. It is like Twitter in some ways, and different in others.

It is a non-profit and volunteer project so not as polished. But it works well.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@SusaninLangside @JohnSwinney @ScotGovFM Can you drop the plans to *remove* a cycle lane on Gordon St now there's more room? Was an incredible backslide on your official strategy. Could instead have a world class bike-train commuter (30% of commuters in the netherlands!) experience with large scale parking.

[Get Glasgow Moving @GetGlesgaMoving]

Have you responded to @TranScotland's consultation yet? 🛣️

We have a one-in-a-generation opportunity to Remove the M8 Woodside Viaducts & invest £500m in sustainable transport connections instead 🚶🚴🚌🚎🚃

Find out more at: https://t.co/y6bFgjSJcH
Deadline: Weds 25 March 2026

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

https://t.co/O5oJkDbhvm

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

A once in a generation opportunity to reconnect Glasgow to itself. Please support the "remove" option in Transport Scotland's consultation. Link below.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

A once in a generation opportunity to reconnect Glasgow to itself.

Please support the "remove" option in Transport Scotland's consultation.

https://t.co/1yuqarypNY

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@DrDPMcArthur The Gordon St plans currently propose removing the contraflow bike lane, would be a small good thing if there's room to retain that

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@Broonjunior According to SPT, £300m is the capital spend necessary to create a strathclyde-wide "world class" bus service

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@mr__do I've tried it and it mostly seems to work. My worry is that it follows the twitter model: venture capitalists are funding it, and down the line they will want to make a profit and it will go the way of facebook, twitter, and every other capitalist social media

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@mr__do I've tried it and it mostly seems to work. My worry is that it follows the twitter model: venture capitalists are funding it, and down the line they will want to make a profit and it will go the way of facebook, twitter, and every other capitalist social media

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

Mastodon is at 1.8m monthly active users and has real search now. No question that building a new account is hassle, but the alternative is handing power to Musk which is worse. Also we could wake up one day to find this place doesn't work any more.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

@reduzio @sullyj3 I'm using https://t.co/tZaUljyE2Z to access mastodon, works like twitter for me

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

He's trying to trap us here by holding our "social graph" (follows and followers) hostage.

All apps are utter shit, it's the people that make them worthwhile.

Stop people finding their friends elsewhere = they're trapped in Elon's Fun House. Or so he hopes.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

Musk's decided to charge for the twitter API so all the fun bots are about to die.

This week is also your last change to use movetoREMOVETHISdonREMOVETHIS[dot]org to automatically find your twitter friends elsewhere

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

Last CHANCE dammit. I'm awa back to the lands where edit buttons are free.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

The #GoBike Strathclyde cycle campaign has had a hiccup and ended up without a committee. There should be an EGM in March to sort this out. I for one will be stepping up.

If you'd be prepared to help and you're not on the mailing list, drop us a line at [email protected]

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

My personal rule for Twitter now is that I will not ordinarily contribute value to it. I will tweet criticism and explainers about Twitter, and I will promote alternatives to Twitter. That's all Elon is getting from me.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

Big thanks to Elon Musk honestly. Although he misleadingly frames it as "your" fault, what he is explaining here is that Twitter's algorithm is designed to pour oil on every fire it sees.

Some of us have been pointing out how dangerous that is for years now.

[Alistair Davidson | @[email protected] @moh_kohn]

We've heard a lot about disinformation in the last few years, but far too little about the structural problems with corporate social media.

They've done huge damage to our society, and it's time for change. Luckily, one deranged billionaire has made that really really obvious.