ugh i really hope crossposters don't slowly choke mastodon like they did to diaspora*

if you're just crossposting everything you tweet on birdsite then what even is the point of making a mastodon account? that's glorified spam at worst, and a recipe for abandonment.

@trwnh this is a totally reasonable viewpoint! for me, i do it because i have disjoint sets of friends on each site, and i do my very best to keep CWing stuff even from birdsite :x

@tastymochafox i feel ya. personally if i log into twitter i usually post totally different things there, but if i was crossposting i'd do it mastodon -> twitter because i care less about twitter -- i've already given up on it.

for a new person who signs up to mastodon and has 0 friends, setting up a crossposter means they don't interact with anyone, so no one follows them, so they don't show up in feeds, so they think it's a ghost town and quit.

@trwnh yeah 100% agreed with that... c'est la vie; I too wish I could 100% abandon Twitter.

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