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.
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.
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
Erik Moeller
LittleGravitas
Sir Dr Rusty o the Isle 🖤💛❤️