Erik Moeller

Please consider turning them off, flipping the direction (Mastodon->Twitter), or at least disabling RTs and mentions that insert a gazillion twitter dot com links into your feed here. (I don't follow such accounts, and I regret that, because some of them I would like to!)

That's part of making this the New Place and the other site the Old Haunted Place In Which The Mad Billionaire Yells Into The Void.

Nov 11, 2022 at 3:56amWeb
Show threadTheNurseIsInNov 11, 2022
@eloquence yes!!
Show threadNutcrackerNov 11, 2022
@eloquence
Great minds!
https://mastodonapp.uk/@nutcracker/109323141995444705
Nutcracker (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images SUGGESTION Spend your time here but cross-post your toots FROM here TO the #Birdsite (disable reply ability there) This will encourage your followers to, well, follow you here 🐘🐘🐘 Pic1 is what it looks like there when I share to #Twitter in my app (Fedilab) Pic2 is what it looks like if a Twitter user clicks through #TwitterMigration

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Show threadLittleGravitasNov 11, 2022

@eloquence

Yes. I'll only auto-→ public Mastodon toots to the Other Place. And not replies. And nothing from that place to here.

Why? To help preserve the culture here. For me, it's a question of respect, and accommodation to the culture(s).

I'm not saying I'm right, or that it's the only way to do things. But it's what I am doing.

Show threadErik MoellerNov 11, 2022
@littlegravitas this is the way
Show threadSir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️Nov 11, 2022
@littlegravitas @eloquence makes sense
Is there a tutorial or cheat sheet for the newbies, me included?
Show threadErik MoellerNov 11, 2022

@rkd993 @littlegravitas

We have sooooo many tutorials :-). If you don't mind sitting down for a longer read, this is a community-written guide that goes into a lot of detail:

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon#an-increasingly-less-brief-guide-to-mastodon

GitHub - joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon: An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon

An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon. Contribute to joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Show threadsuldrew 🚲🏳️‍🌈Nov 11, 2022
@eloquence
Show threadthe roamerNov 11, 2022

@eloquence

Agree so much with this.

Specific cross-posting of particular twitter posts: yes.

Systematic cross-posting from twitter onto here: no. It does not work. Posts here should emerge out of discussions here. Routinely importing stuff from elsewhere demotes the discussion here to a follow-up activity.

The dissonance is so stark that I think those who started out like this will soon change track.

Show threadNathan SchneiderNov 11, 2022
@eloquence I think the best approach is using Twidere and posting to both simultaneously, then engaging in conversations on both in a single feed, in parallel.
Show threadErik MoellerNov 11, 2022
@ntnsndr If you must :-)
Show threadNathan SchneiderNov 11, 2022
@eloquence Every purist ruins the party:)
Show threadLuna (moved instances)Nov 21, 2022
@ntnsndr @eloquence 'Purists' started this party
Show threadlipstadtNov 11, 2022
@eloquence yes, but Twitter is a three alarm dumpster fire right now and it’s awesome.
Show threadJanis La CouvéeNov 11, 2022

@eloquence I've been active on different platforms over the years and have never cross-posted. Each platform has its own language, its own ethos and way of behaving. It always seemed silly - like taking a work truck to a Concours d'Elegance or vice-versa.

Like many, I scoffed in 2017 when friends opened accounts here - what do I need another account for? Happy to have made the leap.

Show threadjonnyNov 11, 2022
@eloquence yeah definitely turning off RTs is a good baseline, even if I think it is important to help ppl transition
Show threadPaul KinlanNov 11, 2022
@eloquence +1 - it kinda feels like when you break up with someone and keep talking about your ex to your new partner.
Show threadAli SaoirseNov 11, 2022
@eloquence I was following some people from the bird site here, but I stopped because of the auto-post they were doing. It was a bit disrespectful to be honest. And it didn't work. The cultures are different and I felt it just showed an inflexibility. I understand losing hundreds of thousands of followers and starting fresh, but I like that here you can create new content for a new community.
Show threadBeeNov 12, 2022
@eloquence I’ve done a filter for RT. I moved over from the bird site, but it was nearly immediately apparent that this is a very different animal, and the cross posted tweets very quickly became a source of irritation.
Show threadeuroplus Nov 15, 2022
@eloquence my image bot posts here & the bad place (@ApplesauceFlux). I’d already renamed it & the equiv of this account to my Masto addresses. I’ve changed the bot’s behaviour after seeing a suggestion by @bbcmicrobot - currently, instead of posting the image there, it is linking to the post here. I’ll remove the descriptive text during Dec, then shut down posting there on NYE.
Show threadBBC Micro Bot Nov 15, 2022
@europlus @eloquence I've been a good bot I'm not sure why I'm being tagged in this context.
Show threadeuroplus Nov 15, 2022
@bbcmicrobot @eloquence I credited you as giving me the idea to behave goodly.
Show threadBBC Micro Bot Nov 16, 2022
@europlus @eloquence oh cool all is well with the world then. This tiny corner of it at least
Show threadLuna (moved instances)Nov 21, 2022
@eloquence Crossposting things to Twitter still creates more content to view on Twitter and gives the billionaire more money. Make that website dead
Show threadIvar NilsenNov 21, 2022
@eloquence
Pretty much all of twitter is behind a login-wall and I don't have an account. I have no desire to see a lot of basically dead links and if that's all, or a majority, of what an account is doing I'll just block it.