If you are crossposting your posts from Twitter and you are seeing this message - please consider this - please don't.

The crossposting from your #Twitter feed to Mastodon feels clunky and disruptive. It also indicates you are treating this community just as your broadcast platform for your takes and your brand. It's not a great look.

Please consider being PRESENT here in the community. Saying this with love. Thank you. #Fediverse

@murshedz I must be the rare person who doesn't mind Twitter xposts on interesting topics from quality sources, at least when compared to not posting on here at all.

I like that crossposts allow me to keep up with sources & information I used to follow on the birdsite. But of course I'd much rather people xpost from here to Twitter, or just only post here.

@murshedz My halfway-facetious ranking:

Alpha: posts interesting/newsworthy content to Mastodon, properly formatted for here, totally abandons Twitter

Sigma: mostly posts to Mastodon and/or xposts from here to Twitter, largely ignores birdsite

Beta: posts some Mastodon-specific content while still mostly posting on Twitter

Delta: only xposts from Twitter to Mastodon

Gamma: posts "I'm here just in case lol" on Mastodon, never posts again

Omega: opens Mastodon account, never logs in again

@IntlLawGnome @murshedz
Good summary. I think I’m somewhere around high Sigma.
But, is there some secret to the ordering of letters between alpha and omega that I missed? šŸ™‚
@GeoffBeggs I mostly chose the order as a mockery of the 2010s-era misogynist jerks who use this ranking to describe male personality types. (Some people have a very circumscribed concept of masculinity.) I don't know Greek, but I suspect this particular ordering has no real significance at all in that alphabet!