#TwitterMigration #introduction
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I’m a Twitter refugee looking for a community. I feel like I left a burning home in the middle the night and set up camp on Mastodon in a dark and unfamiliar land. I squatted on the TWiT instance I learned of from my favorite podcast, #SecurityNow (listener from the beginning in 2005!). Now, as I wake up in this unfamiliar place and look around during the daylight, I have to find my place, my community, the app that works best for me, and how to federate my experience. #infosec
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Today, I am respawning to a new-to-me Mastodon instance. I’m just 9 days on Mastodon, but here’s a bit of what I’ve learned and why I’m changing my Mastodon instance:
1. This is a cool place. I like the format, I like the vibe, I’m making some brand new, quality contacts, and while I haven’t deleted my Twitter account, I’m spending nearly all of my social networking time and capital here. I really hope the Mastodon platform thrives, and I want to be part of that.
2. I really had no trouble networking across instances. I was able to pin or tab other instances and hashtags to see them as alternate feeds. So, why did I move? There were a few main reasons:
2(a). I was spending most of my time watching the infosec.exchange instance feed like an alien on someone else's planet. It’s already a large and diverse population of people with a pretty good alignment with my interests. It made sense to make it my new home.
2(b). I prefer the freedom to post in a longer format and sometimes feel constrained by the 500-word limit. I like the higher chaa=racter limit set on the infosec.exchange instance.
2(c). Mastodon makes it fairly easy to move, but I’m pretty sure you do sacrifice your post and interaction history. I don’t love that, but it’s a fair and reasonable price to pay for the freedom to move. And I decided better to rip off that band-aid now than wait longer.
My primary reason for being on Mastodon is to discover and participate in dialog pertaining to my professional InfoSec interests. But I can already see branching out into some one my more personal interests, which is something I was less inclined to do on the birdsite. For now, I expect to post and interact with #infosec, #podcasts, #mfa, #2fa, #fido2, #u2f, #privacy, #IoT, #phishing, #securityawareness, #grc, #ciso, and ... well, we'll see where this all takes me.
Cheers!
Protecting your email with end-to-end encryption: 
Using extra login protections like a U2F device: 
