I keep forgetting I enabled twitter crossposting to this, so I'm always surprised when I get boops and mention notifications here

@SomeEgrets oh!

i always wonder if people who crosspost are even existent here

@thingywott I mean, I'm looking at twitter most of the time because... that's just where most people I follow are, so that's naturally where my attention is.

I enabled crossposting specifically because masto sits in the background and gets checked less, so I wouldn't have to manually copy/paste things over.

@thingywott having to do the same thing manually more than once gets old fast, and also if we're being real about it, I would forget to do it probably like 90% of the time anyway. But I still wanna share stuff over here too

@SomeEgrets oh yeah, i totally get that

actually, the only reason i don't mind the separation so much is that i use the two places for pretty different things--but if i didn't, i don't think i'd appreciate the mindshare of duplicating the things i felt to be worth it all the time

i just meant that sometimes i see crossposters set up as a twitter backup plan, so some feeds basically become read-only, and you don't know until you try to interact with them

so it was basically an "oh! i see you!"

@thingywott yeah, I dunno! For me, this is more a sort of extension of my twitter account, I guess? They're here for the same reason, and the same people - just running on a different blob of code.

I mostly just want a presence wherever the people I'm following are. I mean, yeah, twitter is bad, but most people are still there. At the same time, I don't want to lose the people who migrated away. So... I guess it's largely just mirroring?