"It's like I'm hearing some muffled noises from a party next door. I didn't go to the party with the excitable blue bird; I went to the one with the amiable proboscidean. But the chirping just won't stop, and the only way I can fully make sense of it is to go to the bird party: the exact thing I didn't want to do."

A long-form argument against automated cross-posting from Twitter to #Mastodon. If you find it persuasive, please share it where it makes sense to do so:

https://write.as/eloquence/why-you-should-probably-not-cross-post-from-twitter-to-mastodon