@abbenm @Gargron Ahh thats valid. I use it the other way; I exist on qoto.org (mastodon) and crosspost to twitter.

I'd imagine the important part is just if you receive notifications on both platforms and respond to both, as I do, then no harm done in either direction.

@freemo

Yeah, I think for your use case that's perfectly fine and we're all benefiting.

But I would add to that, that there's so much noise on Twitter already, that they're not necessarily harmed by cross-posting. And Mastodon, to a large degree, depends on the quality of interaction here, so it needs the signal-to-noise ratio to be pretty strong. And you're definitely part of the solution there, but not these other cross-posting folks.

@Gargron

@abbenm @Gargron Agreed, if your cross posting but otherwise ignoring the network you arent really adding much to the system other than a twitter advertisement.

@freemo @abbenm @Gargron On Todon.nl we have this in our terms of service:

"It's okay to automatically cross-post from Twitter, but we ask you to disable retweets. We also expect from you to regularly check Todon.nl for interactions."

If not, they are silenced after one or more warnings (depending on their cross-post activity).

@jeroenpraat @abbenm @Gargron seems reasonable.

@jeroenpraat sounds like a good rule @freemo @abbenm @Gargron

@spla @freemo @abbenm @Gargron Thank you, but how larger the instance, how more difficult to enforce.