My point was for people who are scared to leave Twitter. They don't have to. They can just dip their toes in while still holding their Elon-themed blanket.

I understand that often you can't just drop the platform where all the engagement is when your job is to promote something. However, you can still enable people who do want to make the switch.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

Make another account

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

That one got banned too. I can't even signup for a lot of these services. I get banned before I even make a post.

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 9 hours ago

Honestly, if you're going to do both, do bluesky and mastodon. Bluesky isn't properly decentralised the way mastodon is, but a lot of influential people are there. Also it's way netter than twitter was.

[–] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You need to use a different device and IP address. IP addresses are a dead giveaway for someone trying to create a second account, and even with a different address, browsers are easy to reliably fingerprint.

The reason for using an entirely different device* is to prevent advertising crap baked into your software from sending Twitter or other platforms any unique advertising ID associated with one of your old, banned IP addresses.

*With careful setup, a virtual machine with a dedicated VLAN and internet connection would work.