Oskar

"I felt a great disturbance in the Force...as if millions of posts were routed to dev/null and were suddenly silenced. I fear something terrible has happened."

Pycon Italia is on Mastodon https://social.python.it/@pycon

The FB export files have everything (your posts, comments, reactions etc) as html files and images/videos.

Getting it from those files into parts that can be uploaded somewhere else will take some work. Either with programming if OP has knowledge, or copy-paste.

Funny, I've mostly seen complaints that Mastodon is "empty".

Some tips:

• Use high-volume hashtags for discovery, not for following.
• Discovery: niched hashtags (e.g. #photography - >#birdphoto)
• Discovery: accounts that use the high-use hashtags. Follow or mute
• mute/filter "spammers" and "spammy" hashtags
• Ditch FOMO, grow your feed slowly.
• Look at boosted accounts from accounts you follow. Maybe they're interesting for you.

Pixelfed has been around for a couple of years. I created an account in the summer of 2022. But it didn't become popular until there was an app. A web app that does the same isn't enough. If it isn't in App Store/Play it doesn't exist for most people (which is something all Fediverse devs must think about).

Anyway, plenty of information about the development pace was available for anyone who wants to make an informed decision before they send their money somewhere. Apparently >2000 people thought it was worth it.

A decentralised Bluesky won't work. We have all heard the arguments that it's totally impossible to decide which Fediverse instance to join. Surely that problem will doom Bluesky's decentralisation efforts.

/s