Kyle OrlandBack to posting on here occasionally, mainly to keep up with the people who didn't feel the need to move to Mastodon (or moved and then came back).
Will continue to crosspost
Kyle Foley@KyleOrl I've been trying to use this more than the other place, but it's hard with so few of the people I know over here
MudMan@KyleOrl @KFoleyFL This is a bit of a real time snapshot of why this place will end up being just people who don't have a work incentive to support Twitter and I'm trying to decide if that's a good or a bad thing.
I'll say I'd rather not have the crossposts, but if that's gonna be how it is at least have them flagged properly so I can assign things to my list of Twitterbots as needed.
@MudMan if you don’t like my posting now that it’s cross posting just unfollow me?
@KyleOrl If I didnt like the posting I would already have. The reason why I keep follows who cross-post confined to a separate list is that posting on Twitter is different than posting here and if I don't they tend to dominate my feeds with long bursts of different tone and behavior.
I don't dislike those guys. That's why I followed them on Twitter before I left. But if they're going to be copy-pasting tweets instead of engaging here I'd like to know so I can adjust my settings accordingly.
@MudMan I'm also gonna engage here, because there are some people who are not on Twitter that I read/read me
@KyleOrl Then I'd prefer to only see the posts made here for this audience. I may be in the minority there, but I don't like the feeling that I don't know if engaging with a post is me reacting to an echo or not seeing what the conversation is because it's happening elsewhere. Why repost here and not, say, on Instagram?
I mean, it's your social media feeds, you do you and it's on me to moderate my own, but that's my two cents on what it feels like when people do this stuff.
@MudMan Instagram is mostly about pictures, and I've never even attempted to find an audience there?
Like I said, follow or don't, not sure why it has to be this big "But it's a different audience!" hang-wringing
@KyleOrl I didn't start that list out of a sense of betrayal or to punish lack of commitment. I decided to filter out the Twitter cross-posters because they legitimately impact what my feeds look like and trigger bursts of spammy retweets full of Twitter links that obscure the conversation with the people posting here.
It's low quality Masto content, it looks different and my entire feed is better when it's contained and I can turn it on and off. I like the authors, but it works best that way.
@KyleOrl I mean, we can talk about the giving in to the network effects and how it is a symbol of the lack of agency we have in the shadow of the money and influence of billionaires that can leverage their fortunes with no recourse left for the rest of us. That's a thing and it may be worth exploring.
But in the immediate present, I mostly just want a clean feed with no glut of external links where I can talk with people who are actually around to answer. It's fairly practical.
@MudMan OK but as I said earlier I am around to answer people on here as well as on Twitter
@KyleOrl Fair enough. I mean, it's not like I need you to commit your time to me, man. We don't know each other and you don't owe me anything. I decide who goes to Lil'Twitter based on content, I'll figure it out.
Plus, I do read that stuff. Again, I follow people on purpose. And I don't hate peeking across the curtain, even if it's just to go "yep, still bad out there" and go back to talking about retro games or pixel art or whatever.