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Many do that, but discussion and readers are in Twitter. Crossposting to nothing is cheap but yields nothing. Cory Doctorow Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr
by nabla9 3y ago
Many do that, but discussion and readers are in Twitter.
Crossposting to nothing is cheap but yields nothing.
Cory Doctorow
Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr
909 Following, 54K Followers
Twitter: @doctorow,
2,814 Following,
494.4K Followers
- andsoitis 3y agoAnd actually it isn’t that cheap because if you post to say 4 (X, Bluesky, mastodon, Facebook), you now have to choose where you’re going to spend time reading and responding to others. On all of them or just on X, where the gravity is.
- fsflover 3y agoObviously you choose a platform which you want to promote. Hopefully the decentralized and FLOSS one (Mastodon).
- r721 3y agoThe problem I rarely see discussed is that if one user I follow posts to Twitter and Bluesky simultaneously and another totally left Twitter for Bluesky I as a Bluesky reader will have a mix of posts I have already seen on Twitter and original Bluesky posts on my timeline. There needs to be a way to somehow mark and filter crossposted content.
- fsflover 3y agoWhy would you follow the same person on two platforms if posts are the same?
- r721 3y agoYeah, that's a fair question and I usually don't do that if user posts more than 1-2 posts per day. But it's hard to know how the account will be used in advance when user says "I made an account on Bluesky, follow me there".
- fsflover 3y agoTo me, you numbers demonstrate that it works very well: compare the whole userbases of the two platforms and you will see that the engagement on Mastodon is larger and growing fast.
- nabla9 3y agoActive number of users has fallen over 1 million from the Twitter exodus times. There are lots of inactive accounts.