I have an account on Mastodon: johndcook@mathstodon.xyz. Note that’s @math… and not @mast…
One advantage to Mastodon is that you can browse content there without logging, while Twitter is becoming more of a walled garden. You can browse my account, for example, by going to the URL
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johndcook
There’s hardly any content there at this time. I’m deciding what I want to use the account for.
Another advantage is that Mastodon, or at least the Mathstodon instance of Mastodon, supports LaTeX content via MathJax. This would be convenient if a thread has a few equations.
I’m certainly not going to create 18 accounts on Mastodon accounts like I did on Twitter. I’m thinking of maybe using my Mathstodon account to post highlights from my Twitter accounts, all in one account.
I’m concerned with where Twitter may be going. I do not plan to leave, though the site could change my mind.
I also have a Bluesky account, but I have no idea what if anything I’ll do with it. My handle there is johndcook@bsky.social.
One final note: You can subscribe to this blog by email or RSS here.
Update: I found out later that Mastodon accounts have associated RSS feeds, so mine is mathstodon.xyz/@johndcook.rss.
Well, I’ve decided to go all-in on Mastodon, so I followed, and look forward to seeing what you do there.
Hi,
nice to have you on the fediverse :)
I get why you don’t want to (re)create all of your twitter accounts. But it is sad to miss these posts as they came surprisingly often to help when I encountered a problem or road block that profited from the pointers given in these posts. There happens to be no rss feed for the accounts does it?
Please do. I love your posts. I moved to Mastodon and have to knock on Twitter’s doors just for posts from a couple of people I follow, one of them is you.
You can cross-post but don’t know if the comments will also be synced.
It might be worth mentioning that all Ma(th)stodon accounts automatically have an RSS feed:
https://mathstodon.xyz/@johndcook.rss