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, I disagree. X and Mastodon are in no manner more special than other websites. I want to access the content that interests me, and Mastodon provides unique ways to subscribe, organise, and access that content. If it happens to be hosted on X.com, those cross-posts are no different to those of an account cross-posting articles hosted on their own website.

@rokejulianlockhart this post is 7+ years old and specifically about people who signed up for mastodon, set up a twitter crossposter, and then never logged back into mastodon. as a result our timelines were flooded with people being mad about twitter stuff which was completely irrelevant on mastodon, and so they got filtered, and then they complained mastodon was a ghost town because no one interacted with their unwanted crossposts.