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Matthew Inman

This seems like an appropriate first comic for mastodon.

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Jack Wright

@oatmeal Welcome, it’s great to see you on here!

Dam

@oatmeal Also, here's some standard advice for all newcomers:
1️⃣ Follow @feditips and @FediFollows for tips on the platform and cool new people.
2️⃣ Make an #Introduction and #TwitterMigration post, then search those tags for new people to follow.
3️⃣ Put your Mastodon handle in your Twitter profile so people can use Debirdify or Fedifinder to grab and import it. You'll probably want to run one as well:
debirdify.pruvisto.org/

Dam

@oatmeal
4️⃣Also, here's how you can use your personal website to verify yourself:
youtu.be/aiXYu-Zz38c?t=466

Mustafa Kulle

@DamnCatOnMyDesk @oatmeal

How can you verify your instagram account on Mastodon?

Dam

@Mustafa_Kulle @oatmeal I don't think it's going to work with Instagram because even though they let you add a link to your profile and add the rel="me" attribute it actually wraps the URL to ensure it doesn't point directly at an external site like Mastodon.

Mustafa Kulle

@DamnCatOnMyDesk
Thank you for that.
Are you familiar with Minds and Odysee btw?

Alan James 🚴🏽

@oatmeal it's good, but needs alt text. But welcome to the fediverse, will follow.

Keith Blakemore-Noble

@oatmeal excellent, glad you’ve made it over to here!

Uschi Kneeface

@oatmeal Oops. Guessed I shoulda thanked you over here. 😀

Tane Piper ⁂

@oatmeal Cool - hope you add more alt text in the future but nice to see you here 🖐️

David Hopeward

@oatmeal That’s hilarious! And good to see you here, welcome…

Moose

@oatmeal holy shit, it's great to see you here!

Uncover

@oatmeal I don't know why but this makes me sad...and horrified 😂​

Mark Gillis

@oatmeal Good to see you here. The Blerch motivated me many years ago. And now I fear large huge wasps.

Wyatt Neal

@oatmeal all herald the return of the #FailWhale !!! Reminds me of when the internet was meant for something besides parading ignorance on a social media platform and receiving accolades and followers genuflecting! Thank you for bringing joy to me today Matt - everything I've read on Twitter today has made me want to start a new planet.

Mustafa Kulle

@oatmeal Wonderful to see you here Matt. I have been a fan of yours since 2010. Welcome to Mastodon. 🎉🎉🎉🎉 I like your comics.

Brinny

@oatmeal I’ve been following your comics for about 10 years! You were the one who got me over to Mastodon ❤️

Mark Shane Hayden

@oatmeal 4+ years from sign-up to 1st post

Epic Levels of Appropriateness 🤣

Dan York

@oatmeal Okay, the Oatmeal is here! This #TwitterMigration thing may in fact be happening! 😀

Ryan Smith

@oatmeal Glad you’re here! Welcome to the party.

Yohannon

@oatmeal Welcome aboard sir! The #TwitterMigration has gotten to the point where ALL of my fave follows are already here! W00t!

FiveAcres

@oatmeal A very appropriate introduction.

Romaq

@oatmeal Oh bloody freakin' hell my wife is mad at my fan-ferret screaming!

Tom Seymore

@oatmeal ‘Rotten Musks’: a card game I’d be happy to back.

Sebastian Tobie

@sirber @oatmeal @danjones000 when twitter had an outtage in the early days a fail whale was displayed. It was later removed, since twitter was stable then.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter#

Sisyphus

@oatmeal use some # in your bio to help people find you! #Comic #TheOatmeal

Jase

@oatmeal Very happy to see you here on Mastodon.

Wolfmane

@oatmeal I stopped using Twitter several years ago because it was such a hot mess. As a Tesla owner and Musk fan, Elon has completely lost the plot. Twitter+Musk=NOPE!

Andrew Danesi

@oatmeal I want you to know it was your email that convinced me to try this social network. I figured it can’t be bad if the guy who wrote a whole cartoon about Nikola Tesla is going to it.

daniel s.

@oatmeal not a hard rule and can be a pain in the ass to remember every time but people here love it when you add text descriptions to your images

Sigopig

@oatmeal #nafo one of us, you'd make an epic shitposter, meme maker and forger.

Quincy the Cat

@oatmeal Bienvenue chez Mastodon ! la farine d'avoine est consommée régulièrement ici. généralement avec des pois verts et de la graisse de baleine qui explose.

MizFidd

@oatmeal Will The Blerch be here as well? Because I stayed in bed and skipped a 5K today, so I might need some shaming.

Pakicetus

@oatmeal yay! I deactivated my Twitter a bit ago and am glad you are coming back to the Pleistocene!

trillytrill

@oatmeal
Failwhale lookin' pretty rough these days :birdsite:

Mr Shafty

@oatmeal that's enough to get me to hit that follow button

Tokyo Sand :verified:

@oatmeal The Oatmeal is here. EXCELLENT. This place is feeling more and more like home.

Amelia Bellamy-Royds

@oatmeal
#ALT4you

A panelled comic.

1st panel: A creature that looks like a deflated blobfish at the bottom of a canyon in a red sea. Caption: After all these years, waiting in the deep.

2: Looking down on the creature through a whirlpool. Caption: I can feel them pulling me up.

3: Above red waves, two small birds tug on strings. Caption: Asking me to rise again. Asking me to…

4th caption: Fail. Graphic: the blob, now clearly more of a zombie whale, is pulled into the sky by 6 tiny birds.

@oatmeal
#ALT4you

A panelled comic.

1st panel: A creature that looks like a deflated blobfish at the bottom of a canyon in a red sea. Caption: After all these years, waiting in the deep.

2: Looking down on the creature through a whirlpool. Caption: I can feel them pulling me up.

3: Above red waves, two small birds tug on strings. Caption: Asking me to rise again. Asking me to…

Oliphant

@AmeliaBR @oatmeal

To add just a bit more of an explainer on the 4th caption:

It's an undead failwhale.

They are pulling the Twitter failwhale up from the deep, once more. :D

M Kathleen Meadows

@oatmeal hmm.. I like it... What's next? A white elephant?

Lisa Sirlin-Hall

@oatmeal so happy you're here! I hope you left a few #MantaShrimp back in the birdverse to take care of those that earn their wrath. 🍤👈🤣

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what the fuck is this supposed to mean
Carrie Clevenger

@oatmeal I just shared this last week over there and the kiddies were like what’s a fail-whale?

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