I followed you on Mastodon ahaha.

Maybe it does go somewhere!

Look at Clonezilla. It’s a specialized Linux distro that does some interesting things, including cloning.

When I tried it I found it confusing and didn’t feel like figuring it out at the time so I just did a clean install ahaha. YMMV.

I think we shouldn’t expect to see the same sort of migration from Twitter to Mastodon like we did for Reddit to Lemmy. Because of network effects, Mastodon will have a much harder time attracting refugees. What you can hope for is more of a slow drip as Twitter users get fed up with the platform. Every migrant to Mastodon makes it that much easier for the remaining Twitter users to move as well.

I’m hopeful but I wouldn’t count on it.

You got the typical recommendations already, my advice would be to avoid most of the niche distros. I just don’t think they offer much over something that is more mainstream, especially for your first foray.

The first distro I ran for any significant length of time was Fedora.