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 we can also filter / drop rts using the "RT @" (quotes included) filter.
Seeing instructions for how to avoid RTs might be more useful to those actually on here.
@eloquence and for anyone that doesn't want to unfollow people that post twitter links - remember you can filter:
twitter.com and just uncheck the box that says "whole word"
@eloquence It is the work of Democrats to always sow the seed of hate and bitterness. If they don't desist from this evil act, it may damage the country.
Everyone that don't agree with you on one or two things is a fascist? That's too bad of you.
It means I can easily call you a fascist too.
If we buy Mastodon too, you will run away from it?Then you give yourself no rest.
Twitter is a great social media platform. And will continue to be great.
Hear, hear. Enough already. :D
Maybe it's time to put a filter on "@twitter.com"
That always stuck out like a sore thumb, like facebook's heinous trying-way-too-hard custom laughter emoji.
@eloquence It's also possible to just put the word "twitter" to your filter list and you'll not see anything from there here.
It's much easier than trying to police everyone else on how they should use this platform.
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
#techwatch https://twitter.com/robertstphane19/status/1593646387450757123
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.
Mastodon as a service is now available on @comwork cloud: https://doc.cloud.comwork.io/docs/mastodon (get your own dedicated instances easily !). #techwatch
Pre-reinstatement, the primary reason was clutter and context collapse. Posts often don't make sense without visiting the other site, and a feed that primarily consists of Twitter URLs is not very readable or engaging.
Post-reinstatement, the additional reason is that many more folks will be actively trying to _avoid_ Twitter because the site's CEO has decided on the basis of a poll among his followers that allowing a fascist to spew his hateful garbage is Just Fine.
And it'll gain more track if people see it as its own thing rather than just copying content over automatically. :-)
The context collapse goes both ways, BTW -- when someone just cross-posts their stuff, I never know if they will actually even notice if I reply here, or if I'm effectively interacting with a shadow presence.
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