Courtney Heard 🇨🇦
Just a reminder: I don’t want cross posts from Twitter in my feed, and I feel like if you’re still active on Twitter, you’re not really my people anyway, so if I’ve unfollowed you, that’s why. #birdsite
Dec 12, 2022 at 3:07pmWeb
Show threadDavid Mitchell Dec 12, 2022

@godlessmom

Your statement is strongly at odds with the thing I value most about Mastodon: a welcoming and inclusive culture that tries to meet people where they are and be patient with people taking a different journey.

The instance I’m on had ~60 people on Nov 1 and has since welcomed 20,000 newcomers: such a hardline take from one of those newcomers is a little rich, you’re only a few weeks ahead of the next person who opens an account.

(and yes, the crossposting irks me too)

Show threadDavid Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈Dec 12, 2022
@godlessmom Yep. Cross feeds were initially a pain. No longer an issue since I've turned off all but a select few 'notifications' and even they know I'm just being polite! #birdsite
Show threadDavid Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🕊🌈Dec 12, 2022
@godlessmom You put that so well so I copy and pasted it into my last Tweet. If mty friends don't get it by now, well tough! #birdsite
Show threadJust Matthew 🙏Dec 12, 2022
@godlessmom
If everyone on the #birdsite tried to move to #Mastodon today, most instances would crash and burn. I too find #Twitter cross posts in my feed an annoyance, though these scalability problems make it one I accept for now.
Show threadMike RDec 12, 2022

@Irreverent_B @godlessmom I believe with few exceptions that most people are HERE because they don't want to be THERE.

If you need to cross-post, that's fine. Just copy paste the post. You don't need to have a link to the 'original'.

Show threadJust Matthew 🙏Dec 12, 2022
@appsec4one @godlessmom
That's what I do personally. It's primarily academics and such with larger follower counts I've noticed cross posting almost everything. That's clearly a backup strategy for things going utterly wrong over there. Their definition of going utterly wrong seems to differ from mine. That boat sailed already.
Show threadRichDec 12, 2022
@godlessmom People are still doing that?
Show threadAriaflameDec 12, 2022
@godlessmom I've figured out how to filter out anything with the birdsite address
Show threadJon RDec 12, 2022
@godlessmom Curate your feed however you want to, but “If you’re still active on Twitter you’re not my people” is REALLY judgy and siloed. Take a deep breath and enjoy some common humanity with folks who don’t agree with you down to every calculation of the pros and cons of using one app vs another!
Show threadSue WDec 13, 2022
@jonricha @godlessmom Agreed . People are free to choose to be on both sites. Bit fed up of people being so judgmental. Came to Mastodon to get away from that, but lo and behold 😔
Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 13, 2022
@SueW251161 @jonricha my parents were radicalized by misinformation. I don’t want to support a platform that is actively welcoming back the sources of misinformation that took my parents from me. I’m very happy for you that you don’t have this issue but I can’t, in good conscience, see posts from that platform from people I choose to follow and not feel like I’m supporting it in some way. Ergo, I will not follow people who cross post from there. Thx
Show threadJon RDec 13, 2022
@godlessmom @SueW251161 Absolutely, not questioning who you follow or your reasons. But many of the people still posting on that app have the same moral vision as you do for how they want their country and their world to be, they just do the math differently about the value of continuing to post there. You can think they’re doing the math wrong without concluding that they’re “not your people”. Don’t make enemies out of people who aren’t!
Show threadCourtney Heard 🇨🇦Dec 13, 2022
@jonricha @SueW251161 we are all fully aware that for-profit social media apps trade in engagement. Providing engagement on such an app is giving it value. If you’re actively giving value to a platform that is welcoming nazis & bad actors who took my parents from me, then I’m sorry, you’re not my people.
The people I choose to surround myself with would not willingly remain at a party where nazis have been invited. This is not “judgment” this is basic morality.
Show threadJon RDec 13, 2022
@godlessmom @SueW251161 I agree with you about not giving value to Musk; that’s why I’m leaving Twitter. And also, Twitter has 400 million users, about 10 times the population of Canada, which BTW also allows Nazis to reside there. People have developed all kinds of sub communities and support systems on Twitter. And, some now see it as a place to fight Nazis. Can you really not imagine any reason other than immorality why anyone might have stayed so far?
Show threadAnti Faisisteach SaebhiarDec 13, 2022
@jonricha @godlessmom @SueW251161
Sit down, Jon. She has been clear about what makes her uncomfortable. Her feelings are valid. It's not our place to tell her she's wrong.
Show threadJon RDec 13, 2022
@xmacdonald @godlessmom @SueW251161 Certainly not my place to tell her she’s wrong about her feelings. But to tell her that she might reconsider her actions In how she’s publicly labeling people, I feel OK about. She herself doesn’t seem shy about telling people when she doesn’t agree with what they’re doing!
That said, I will sit down anytime she asks me to. It’s her thread.
Show threadAnti Faisisteach SaebhiarDec 13, 2022
@jonricha @godlessmom @SueW251161
O well, good job 'splainin' then
Show threadJon RDec 13, 2022
@xmacdonald @godlessmom @SueW251161 hey thanks! Have a lovely day!
Show threadFernheadDec 13, 2022
@godlessmom @SueW251161 @jonricha Like I said in my completely ignored plop, “people who migrate from bird land:”
Show threadMeow.tar.gz  Dec 12, 2022
@godlessmom I am starting to feel the same way. We left for really good reasons.
Show threadAtlantic Canuck 🇨🇦Dec 13, 2022
@godlessmom I don’t like them either. I left for a reason. Publish here; not there. My opinion.
Show threadGdublyaDec 13, 2022
@godlessmom If everyone left, it would send such a great message. Lingering on the other site rewards trolls like Musk.
Show threadNorthernWolfieDec 13, 2022
@gdublya @godlessmom
If everyone with different viewpoints leave, it'll turn into a 44billion dollar version of 4-Chan.
We all knowhow profitable that'll be.
Show thread1000 Possum DJs 🏳️‍⚧️🌱Dec 13, 2022
@godlessmom I have to get better at not linking to the #birdfire. Only when I tried avoiding it did I realize how pervasive it had become in my life, even as someone who didn't use it all that often