Mark Posen 🌱 💚 Ⓥ 🇪🇺 🇺🇦Hey, people (like me) moving to #Mastodon from #Twitter! If you've set up automatic crossposting from Twitter to here, please consider turning it off. I don't think it works well; formatting often looks odd, but also as you can't really engage, because replies don't end up on Twitter. But mainly because I think it's disrespectful to the Mastodon community; almost as if you can't be bothered to engage here. If you've got something to say here, say it *here*. That's my strong suggestion!
I myself made the same 'mistake' and set up crossposting from Twitter, for a few days. But I soon realised that it was a mistake and turned it off. I hope, if you're currently crossposting, that you will consider turning it off too.
Alan Wardrop@posen @posen For the time being I may continue to crosspost. Both ways, but not everything I post.
In many cases the toot/tweet will be drawing attention to events or third party content. Yes I have read mastodon.help and I understand why this is frowned upon. But I also know why I post what I post and, given the reasons quite so many of us are exploring Mastodon just now, and the undeniable significance of Twitter in UK politics, some crossposting makes sense.
In many cases the toot/tweet will be drawing attention to events or third party content. Yes I have read mastodon.help and I understand why this is frowned upon. But I also know why I post what I post and, given the reasons quite so many of us are exploring Mastodon just now, and the undeniable significance of Twitter in UK politics, some crossposting makes sense.
@alangwardrop Hi Alan, I don't have any issue with manual crossposting. I agree with you that thoughtful crossposting could easily make sense. My issue is with *automatic* crossposting that just dumps everything from someone's Twitter account (including RTs) here. That doesn't make sense at all as far as I am concerned.