With the Twitter reinstatement of the former US President who attempted to incite a fascist coup after losing an election, now would _really_ be a good time to stop cross-posting your Twitter RTs here.

If you feel that cross-posting is the only way to maintain a presence here, please consider limiting it to original posts without mentions or RTs, to avoid cluttering timelines with Twitter URLs. Thank you kindly for your consideration.

@eloquence Or you can choose crossposting only some messages with a hashtag to avoid crossposting everything. This allows us to choose some relevant messages. That’s why I developed this: https://gitlab.comwork.io/oss/social-bridge
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@idrissneumann

I appreciate the thought and effort that went into this tool, and the occasional cross-post is definitely preferable over a flood of RTs. :)

Still, personally, I would much prefer selective, manually written summaries than posts like this that solely consist of a hashtag and a Twitter URL:

https://mastodon.comwork.io/@idrissneumann/109369251284420637

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#techwatch https://twitter.com/robertstphane19/status/1593646387450757123

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@eloquence If you’re not retweeting a tweet adding a hashtag and you directly add the hashtag in your messages, you’ll get the content you’re sharing and you’ll not be able to tell the difference. You’re right for the retweet case but I don’t see a solution other than sharing the tweet link because it can be seen as plagiarism otherwise

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I would offer that if there's a strong case for an RT, then it's worth the manual effort of writing a short summary (and maybe using https://nitter.net/ instead of Twitter URLs). Plain Twitter URLs without any context are an imposition on the reader to visit a third party site they may actively be trying to avoid.

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@eloquence Yeah I agree. I’m still thinking about how getting the best compromise. This is an example of crosspost which doesn’t not come from a RT https://mastodon.comwork.io/@idrissneumann/109370644977572731
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Mastodon as a service is now available on @comwork cloud: https://doc.cloud.comwork.io/docs/mastodon (get your own dedicated instances easily !). #techwatch

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