Josh Buchea
Alley StoughtonAre you getting tired of all these links back to the bird site? (Consider boosting so we can get a sample of opinion.)
Yes
No
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IAintShootinMis@fullyabstract in reality though, it only proves that Twitter is still culturally relative. The question is, what communities is it relative in, and are those voices beneficial, essential?
Charles J Gervasi ⚡🛡️🥥@fullyabstract I don't like them. I'm biased against clicking on a link to the other place. I don't think I'm exactly tired of them. I'm just more likely to follow links to somewhere else.
John Francis@fullyabstract I have a content filter that hides any mention of that place. Out of sight....
Quokka 🇦🇺@johnefrancis @fullyabstract this is the way
Kat@fullyabstract Yeah, it’s really annoying. Especially the RTs.
There are accounts I really liked from Twitter that I *hope* will eventually fully engage over here. So for now I’m not unfollowing, but..
@kataclyst @fullyabstract create a Filter for "RT @" and enjoy a much cleaner timeline free from crossposters firing their birdsite-worthy content into here
@Quokka @fullyabstract Will try. Thanks, Quokka!
iplaynice@fullyabstract I'm too absorbed in my own work to relearn this entirely new platform. It's just too exhausting for me right now. Eventually I will catch up..
Nathan Dautenhahn@fullyabstract so honestly interested to hear back. It seems to me that anyone should use whatever paltform they want 😅. What do you think?
Bruce Mirken@fullyabstract Yes, but I am guilty of it too until I complete my transition at the end of the month.
Ixtli Dekami 
🍕⚾🖖@fullyabstract
No. I mostly ignore them and sometimes there's something interesting there…
No. I mostly ignore them and sometimes there's something interesting there…
⚡️ Kozmo Voted Blue ⚡️Many of us have moved on from the #BirdSite and don’t want to go back, but still want access to some of the news there. I’m thankful for the M’don users who cross post and share, but I refuse to boost or click back to see the tweets. Every time we enter the birdspace, every time we like, retweet, or reply, #Elon wins.
Instead of sharing tweets, I wish folks would just post a screenshot of pertinent tweets and add third party links for any reference sources.
WhiskyWryThanks - I'm of the same mind. I don't click on links that take me back to the toxic neighborhood of my younger years. I escaped that shithole...why da fuk would I want to go back?
John G Fitzgerald@Kozmo @fullyabstract I agree. Don't boost TW.
Eggmont 🐘One must not forget the need to remove all of the blue bird shite from one's shoes.
That can take hours of time and is a grotty unpleasant task.
Tor Lillqvist@Kozmo @fullyabstract You can read tweets without logging in. Useful if you have some specific accounts you still want to follow now and then. To avoid the prompt insisting that you log in before letting you scroll, use the Chrome extension here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/breakthrough-twitter-logi/ohhifopcgokjpbnppnmjbdnjnfcfnlep
@tml
Thanks for that. It gets me into the bird anonymously, but I bet it still logs me in their data as a user. It also still lets me repost items, though I have no desire to. I'll keep this handy but try not to stay away.
Thanks for that. It gets me into the bird anonymously, but I bet it still logs me in their data as a user. It also still lets me repost items, though I have no desire to. I'll keep this handy but try not to stay away.
MostlyTato@Kozmo @fullyabstract
I'm finding I can't click through or boost anything that's cross posted. A lot of it refers to 'this site' as in twitter and that is not a good look posted here.
I feel like cross posting also implies that the two platforms are of similar function, which I don't agree with.
Engaging with one or the other, or both separately, would seem more appropriate to me.
I'm finding I can't click through or boost anything that's cross posted. A lot of it refers to 'this site' as in twitter and that is not a good look posted here.
I feel like cross posting also implies that the two platforms are of similar function, which I don't agree with.
Engaging with one or the other, or both separately, would seem more appropriate to me.
Godfrey642@Kozmo @fullyabstract Brilliant post than you. My feelings exactly.
RhyothemisI follow some accounts using an RSS reader.
@Rhyothemis I think I'll give that a try. Do you enter a site in your feed via the RSS reader or does the reader give enough of the content that you don't have to enter?
All the content is displayed within the reader. I'm using FeedBro in FireFox.
Of course, there is the temptation to respond ...
Olav@fullyabstract yes, but specifically the cross-post programs. If it's content that isn't readily available elsewhere it's understandable.
Mad Sci ∴
Wendy MsGator 🐊I voted no because I have them filtered out. Did that very early on after joining.
Kim Spence-Jones #FBPE@WendyMsGator I think that should have been a ‘yes’ vote, because you were annoyed enough to go to the effort of filtering (like me 😜).
Christine T@fullyabstract I don't see much of them simply because I'm not likely to follow accounts that constantly link back to the place. If I see such links I ignore and scroll on
Alex Z | Writer@fullyabstract
I've put a filter on that removes them all from my feed
🤷♂️ so, I don't see a single one
Tired of them? I'd recommend doing the same...
@fullyabstract I rapidly got tired of links to Twitter so I created a filter to hide any post containing such links. 😜
Perpetual Mystic 
@fullyabstract I am indeed. I never click on them anyway, refuse to give that place even one click, glance, or second of my time.
AnthonyUplandpoetWatkins@fullyabstract
fortunately, i seem to mostly be following folks who dont do that!
if you are in paradise, you dont have to link to the landfill...
word saladin@fullyabstract I don't actually mind people doing it, it's the format: by far the best way I think is just link, screencap, alt or body texted.
The format of RT @ and link often just decontextualises it to a point where you're not sure if you're reading a QT dunk or someone sincerely RTing a sentiment or what. Less intelligible than twitter 1.0 was at the same thing.
Laurie Feinswog@fullyabstract i have a filter on “RT”. Otherwise it’s like trying to meditate with your phone on.
Susanna (suessaints)@fullyabstract Also, if peeps are going to CW any content, please provide some insight on the topic. Hint, hint… I just don’t read toots with CW tag with no idea what the link is about 🤷🏼♀️
Sunny Willow 🌞Exactly. 😂 Here's a possible trigger warning, open it to see if you are triggered. 🤦
Tyler David@fullyabstract The sad thing is that people still treat the site as a place for legitimate opinions and discussion. Elon banked on users being too attached to leave when he reintroduced fascism, and unfortunately he was correct. A standard you walk past is a standard you accept.
Aaron@fullyabstract To add some context to my answer (which was “no”), I like that there’s this degree of interoperability between the two by virtue of Twitter giving all its tweets publicly accessible URLs. It’s the way the web was meant to work.
I’d love if Twitter implemented ActivityPub fully so that the interoperability could be more meaningful (and give instance admins better moderation options). But I don’t think Mastodon should try to be its own bubble like so many other social networks.
Down10@fullyabstract Don't break links for me. If I want to mute or block them, I may, but it should be my choice, not an admin's. Add a `rel="nofollow noopener"` onto the link, if you must.
Payton 
@fullyabstract everyone is just cross-posting from twitter. it is what it is
Loukas (They/Them) 🏳️⚧️@fullyabstract I voted, but all this poll shows is an absolute number of people who think one way or another. It's not a statistical sample.
Michele Garbarino@fullyabstract I find it annoying. I'm here not to be there. And I prefer here. But I also understand that some are still suffering from some sort of PTSD
David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈
Hoigwai@fullyabstract No, not all content is here yet and I only get what I follow so I value those people's thoughts.
Johan Olofsson@fullyabstract
To answer the question: both yes and no
I'm not tired of the retweets as such, since I am avoiding most of that using filters.
But it is tiresome when people comment on a retweet, the comment shows up in my flow and looks interesting, but the retweeter is a robot who never sees the comments.
Julia@fullyabstract It depends. On the content and how often one uses them. I dislike „wrongly“ tooted threads more.
Karina@fullyabstract The links are pointless when you've deactivated your account.
Giliell@fullyabstract
Yes! If you think something is relevant, just screenshoot it
Yes! If you think something is relevant, just screenshoot it
Brian Robinson@fullyabstract As I've said before, I no longer boost any toots cross-posting to the bird site.
Crazy Pony@fullyabstract absolutely YES!!!!!
I can understand it somewhat because it comes mostly from people who have been on Twitter before and now try to get over the gap and not get torn in between. But for these who were native to the Fediverse and since years, it gets somewhat annoying to be linked to Twitter that is by its own definition not a place to federate and exchange with people
Jay of the Iceni@fullyabstract if I'm honest I never see any, thanks to my filters.
Tommaths (he/him)@fullyabstract No. I have no problems with people linking to external material and it's my choice whether I click it or not. What I _am_ tired of is people filling my timeline whining about Twitter (because that's its actual name).
elizabeth veldon@fullyabstract i said 'no' not because i want to see more, i don't and would happily see less, but because sometimes they are worth following.
that said allot of people should not be using their posts to cross post links back to their account there.
Helen Robertson 4@fullyabstract not fussed one way or the other. People can take them or leave them. More peeved with people still not putting things under CW when needed.
wwinter86@fullyabstract No as I am sharing on both here and the bird site
Rich Stokoe@fullyabstract
Yes but it's the nature of the internet, hyperlinks are foundational.
It's feels like an opportunity to build an (curated) abstraction layer above the fediverse and proprietary social networks.
Yes but it's the nature of the internet, hyperlinks are foundational.
It's feels like an opportunity to build an (curated) abstraction layer above the fediverse and proprietary social networks.
George Dinwiddie@fullyabstract I wouldn't mind them if the toot carried the full sense of the tweet, and the link was just for attribution.
thomas reis@fullyabstract how can I switch them off?
Kirsty@fullyabstract I’ve unfollowed the main offenders that were in my feed.
Mierin Jay-Lilan Fanucchi@fullyabstract it's the wrong direction! People should be linking back to here on Twitter to draw more attention away from their ;p