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!"
@SomeEgrets that's fair! not everyone is in both places
in my case, twitter is more a highlights reel, and here is where incomplete thoughts and stuff goes
i like to make a lot of things, including plans, but so seldom do they become Actual Things that i don't like saying i'm even in the process, because it might disappear before it becomes a real thing
it's also a pseudo-AD with content warnings--not that i really post nsfw things on my twitter AD anyway (though RTs definitely are)
@SomeEgrets oh, also, i don't try to keep up with every single post here
like, i just caught up to your fursona things on twitter about an hour ago--so i'm often way too late to say things a lot of the time
i also specifically don't say who i am on twitter here to kinda remove expectations a little bit--even if my circles have some of the same people in them
@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?