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Chad LoderPlease stop cross-posting your twitter feed automatically to Mastodon. When you cross-post but never engage with your Mastodon followers, you're treating this as a syndication platform rather than a community. It comes off arrogant, and it clutters the timeline.
Nick "Neiloch" 
@chadloder I use one but one-way TO Mastodon guaranteeing my presence here has everything and more than I have on Twitter. I also plan on it being short-term.
Tim J@neilochgaming @chadloder Did you mean "to" in that? (I'm guessing not.)
Noelle@chadloder Yes yes yes! I completely agree with this.
Karen Strickholm@noellemitchell @chadloder Me too Noel.
author_is_ShrikeTron🔠💉x5@chadloder Right. Take some time and manually cross-post both ways if you want to fairly engage everyone.
Martin Ruskov@ShrikeTron @chadloder it's a trade -off and would be strange to pretend you can weigh the balance on someone else' behalf
@mapto @chadloder It's a personal choice, but we can agree disengaged auto-crossposting isn't cool.
@ShrikeTron @chadloder this is the first time "disengaged" comes across in the conversation. And let me tell you, "disengaged" doesn't read this anyway. As far as "cluttering the timeline". This is the opposite to the problem many have. Easy to stop following. Yet, many people (myself included) find genuinely interesting content on twitter. I prefer cross-posting a retweet, rather than detaching from the source
@ShrikeTron @chadloder My feeling is that if crossposting is done right, you can't tell it's happening. I wondered about using some tool to post the occasional thing in both places at once, because it's laborious switching sites just for one post especially if there's something like alt text involved, but the two or three I looked at wanted to send *everything* from one to the other (maybe with telltale hashtags for the exceptions).
@timtfj @chadloder I can manually dual-post with Twidere (for Android), though app seriously needs updates.
I use it a lot to QT across the "gap".
@ShrikeTron Do you know of any website doing the same thing? I've a problem installing anything new at present (Google Play demanding impossible amounts of free space).
Jon Rodman@chadloder I completely agree.
AGF : poemproducerwhy not unfollow, i like to read crossposter cause saves me go to birdside, to follow some specific people I want to read from?
@poemproducer I do unfollow. I also write about my reasons for doing so.
@poemproducer @chadloder That's a fair point.
Skye@chadloder telling people how and what to post comes across as arrogant People’s motivations for what and how they post are as individual as they are, so maybe dm the tiny group of people who you follow and discuss it with them directly
flere-imsaho 🇺🇦@girlzero did someone force you to read their toots?
whetstone@girlzero @chadloder Agreed. I do wish it were clear when something was a cross-post so I could more easily unfollow people who aren’t really here.
@girlzero I'm not telling. I'm asking.
ASTROHeya @chadloder “automatically”? Hmm yeah frankly I haven’t really figured out this site yet. Why are posts greyed out? 🤷🏻♀️ What’s up with the “federated” feed? It’s like tl on meth 🙃 sigh. Hope ur well.
@astrogirl The federated feed is everyone on your server, plus everyone they follow, but only the posts which are set to public visibility (the globe icon in the web interface). There's a setting to pause it then manually refresh, so you get snapshots rather than a deluge.
Björn Ivarsson@timtfj @astrogirl Yes, in my opinion manual refresh gives a better experience.
@bjornivarsson @astrogirl I feel it's better for all the feeds—for the slow ones, it makes it a lot easier to keep track of what you've read.
@timtfj thx-- ahhhhhh where's the pause!?? it's stressing me out! I'll admit I'm challenged at new platforms. My brain doesn't compute.
@astrogirl Had to look. On the Web interface it's Settings → Appearance then tick "slow mode". It's a little way down the page.
It Is INDEED Wednesday@chadloder Engage here like it's 2007 on Myspace.
Calamity Caitlin@chadloder i would NEVER. My terrible content is HAND CRAFTED. 😂😂😂🥰🥰🥰
Russ@chadloder I get it, I really do.
The flipside is that I have successfully resisted signing up for a Twitter account, which means that for the folks who I actually wanted to hear from, even in a syndication sense (like you!), I was opening up an incognito window and manually rotating through profiles.
So on a purely selfish level, I'm still pretty happy when I can follow folks here instead of doing that.
haq@chadloder Yes, and twit crossposting is particularly annoying when they're supposedly calling out right-wing content on the turkey site but actually spreading it to a whole new platform and audience by posting unredacted screencaps with no commentary beyond outraged spluttering.
Just Another Amy@chadloder Platform cross-posting tools are rarely a good idea, as every platform has its own interactional norms which make unaltered imports feel… off… to the locals.
Mastadon isn’t a 1:1 Twitter substitute; it’s a different platform. Standing out as someone who doesn’t give 2 💩s about those you’re interacting with is probably not the way to win friends and influence people.
Mastadon isn’t a 1:1 Twitter substitute; it’s a different platform. Standing out as someone who doesn’t give 2 💩s about those you’re interacting with is probably not the way to win friends and influence people.
Pontifex
Michael@chadloder I've already unfollowed a few people for doing this. I mean, I gave them a few days to notice and respond, but they didn't seem to want to engage with anyone here.
Irena@chadloder I have managed to filter the crossposts out, by adjusting filters in my settings. Took a while to work out, and several days for it to come into effect, but I haven't seen any links to the bird place on my feed lately so I think it worked. I've been here about a month, and still working it out. Not many journalists yet.
#MastodonMigration #Journalism
#MastodonMigration #Journalism
@ORIOliver @chadloder I expect you're already doing it, but "RT @" with "full word" turned off is a good filter for removing retweets. (I wish there was a setting to show who the poster is though, so I'd know whether to look.)
Sean Lake: famous ballet 
@chadloder It really does look cluttered. Things just don’t seem formatted well, and threads might not be threaded. It’s hard to read.
The account basically needs to be doing something unique and important enough that I can’t find anything similar in a more accessible way, but I’m actually motivated to go out of my way look for it specifically. That’s vanishingly close to zero accounts.
hannahshouse2 🇺🇸 California@robotrecall
Anything that has RT in it gets scrolled past.
I left for a reason. I don't want to see it. I've added filters for RT, also TFG, EM and YE. They're listed as former TV reality a******, Tesla a****** and ye
Thomas Favre-Bulle 🏳🌈@hannahshouse2 @robotrecall adding an RT filter to my feed helped a lot
Scott Hansen@chadloder I'm starting to understand why some long time Mastodon users are getting so riled up with a lot of us Twitter refugees.
It annoys the hell out of me as well. I've found that I interact (and get a lot more interactions) a hell of a lot more here than I did on the birdsite, and I only have 10% of the followers here.
Eyebee 🇬🇧@chadloder I will sometimes post to both platforms but I do it manually.
Wielerkoorts!@chadloder why complain you can simply unfollow accounts if you don't like them
Hope 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏴 SNP@chadloder @Wielerkoorts by your logic why say anything here at all? It’s a conversation about something that seems to be relevant and many have responded positively…
@TheMorrigan @chadloder I crosspost occasionally because I want to serve my followers on both accounts. But annoying crossposters I simply don't follow so they won't appear in mine TL.
@Wielerkoorts @chadloder Ah but what about the public timelines? Unfollowing won't help with clutter there.
Lars K 
:verified_gold:@chadloder At first, I was happy about that feature. But as you said, no answer, when someone engages is just arrogant.
Edit: One more thing. also the feature that anyone can start up a feed from any twitter account to Mastodon is also annoying. I used it myself, I admit, but regretted it immediatly.
Edit: One more thing. also the feature that anyone can start up a feed from any twitter account to Mastodon is also annoying. I used it myself, I admit, but regretted it immediatly.
TheRealAdde 🇸🇪🇪🇺🇺🇦
Attorney Mark Question@adde @chadloder I disagree I think crossposting is a step in the migration. I am more concerned about people opening a Mastodon account with lots of noise, post 3 toots and then go back to twitter.
Mike Ely@chadloder agreed. In my case the easiest approach is to simply not have a twitter feed at all. Mine's dead except for links to here (one using the most excellent spacekaren.sucks site).
Ro Laren RED57🥄💩🦨🍈🍊🤡Currently, if I post from my blog, it automatically sends both a toot and a tweet. Which reminds me of that song from Chitty-Chitty Bang Bang…
Anyway, fairly soon I’ll no longer be on Twitter and the cross posting will stop, but I’m still using it to stay in contact with people. Not for long.
I use Post.news for more serious news, and topics touching on my work life. Mastodon seems better suited to my play life.
So I’ll try to keep my clutter to a minimum, but will toot-tweet as necessary.
Anyway, fairly soon I’ll no longer be on Twitter and the cross posting will stop, but I’m still using it to stay in contact with people. Not for long.
I use Post.news for more serious news, and topics touching on my work life. Mastodon seems better suited to my play life.
So I’ll try to keep my clutter to a minimum, but will toot-tweet as necessary.
John Panzer@chadloder On the other hand, cross-posting from here to Twitter is, IMO, a good thing to do in the short term. It signals that you've moved and encourages others to do the same. (To be clear, my goal is: Twitter delenda est.)
Providing any content to twitter is a tacit showing of support for it and the direction its ceo is taking the site in.
Now providing a blurred image of your latest post on mastodon with a 'I've posted on mastodon please go there to read it' would work and will filter out the people who are actually interested in what you say.
Jeroen Baert@chadloder Bonus tip: if you're really lazy (like me) and you've got content (jokes, a picture) that works on both platforms, configure the crossposter to only trigger on a certain hashtag. I use #xp (for crosspost)
D. Creemer
Stop That@chadloder Crossposting didn’t used to bother me, but now I’m finding it more and more annoying. If I wanted to be on Twitter, I would be.
@chadloder more and more people here are saying this…just cross posting stuff from the bird site is getting to be very irritating!
Siobhán McElduff@chadloder I'm amazed at all the lecturing about the ethos of #Mastodon that comes from accounts just barely over a month old.
@siobhanmcelduff @chadloder I feel the worse side of that is the ones who loudly complain that Mastodon is set up all wrong and that "What Mastodon needs to do is . . . "—followed by a list of all the things Mastodon is set up to avoid. (That often seems to be the journalists, and in general the people who talk about "reach" and "audience" all the time.)
Christoph von Nathusiusthey should toot instead and then link this on Twitter, ... <oops/>
Lisa@chadloder How is one able to tell if something has been cross posted?
caffè doppio@chadloder Mastodon problem is lack of content, so for the time being, I don't see it as a major concern to cross-post.
binchicken@chadloder garfiald is the only one allowed to crosspost