Greg Bumgardner
emptywheelMy thinking, for now, is that there will be general (US-focused) content I'll post on Twitter that will repost here using cross-poster. But my meanderings I'll post here and keep out of the edge overlord's hands.
Dragonfly Knot@emptywheel So glad you are here. I think you do a wonderful job shedding light on the big rot in US Politics. My instinct is to hit boost like a retweet on all your posts, but it would probably irritate the folks on my linux afficianado instance. Still learning. #twittermigration
bauhinia@emptywheel what is "crossposter"?
Ken Carroll@bauhinia @emptywheel I’ve seen others mention that there are plugins to twitter that mean when you post on twitter the post is automatically also sent to Mastodon
IndyDeVoe@bauhinia As I can shockingly answer a question, I will. Setting up crossposting will automatically post content from one social media account, to another. Twitter to Mastadon, or the reverse, for instance.
@indydevoe
Thanks. I think it is a great idea.
Not sure how I "set up crossposting" from Twitter (or Mastodon). Am curious to learn. Could totally get into it.
Aaron K.
&y@bauhinia I think it’s this or something similar https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
Thom Slattery@bauhinia @emptywheel there's a few services that you can use to automatically post things from one site to the other. I was using this one https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/
@emptywheel thank you for your wonderfully thoughtful posts
maraleia@emptywheel I was thinking the same thing too.
Charles Gaba@emptywheel For now I’m cross-posting my own tweets and QTs but not my RTs or my responses to others over there.
tom4okstate@emptywheel it is the ideal solution for someone with a sizable following, such as yourself, who wants to grow this community but not at the expense of their Twitter following.
Loathe45*@emptywheel thank you for changing your picture.
Rob Yurkowski (he/him)@emptywheel I'm really happy you're here!
RosaLSmothers@emptywheel Glad to see you here Marcy. Mastodon already feels like quite the pallet cleanser 🧼
@emptywheel That's a sensible compromise. I'm starting to unfollow people over there as they sign up here, hoping that it will encourage them to at least maintain both.
JB Emmons@emptywheel If you and like 5 other informative people set up crossposting between Twitter and Mastodon, I'll probably never open Elon's app again.
Hotel Lobby@emptywheel
Hi. Follow you on twit, just got here. Mastodon Q if you know…how do I follow someone off their post vs. having to go to their home page to click the follow button? Thank you.
Hi. Follow you on twit, just got here. Mastodon Q if you know…how do I follow someone off their post vs. having to go to their home page to click the follow button? Thank you.
Splitpane@Hotel_Lobby @emptywheel click the "..." in the top right of the post and select follow. Follow button could be made more prominent, I agree.
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➖Dustin Miller➖@emptywheel Awesome to see you here!
Mastodon Migration@emptywheel emptywheel, suggest that if you rely on crossposter you also include more hashtags!!! Here, there is no algorithm (which is a very good thing!), and Home feeds are curated by hashtags.
You might want to post here by simply duplicating and extending the message with hashtags. Yes, it is a pain to post in both places, but you might find that the things you want to say on Mastodon are somewhat different and the hashtags are really important.
@mastodonmigration Thanks. I'll be trying more approaches later this week. Still trying to figure it all out.
🐬🐠🤿ScubaGirl🐋🐟🐳@emptywheel I am so thankful to see you here! You are one of my favs. I hope the others find their way here.