Oh no,the cross-posters are back 😞
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@Gargron Why is that a bad thing?
I would guess that it's a bad thing because, in practice, this means most people crossposting are on Twitter and have zero intention of engaging with people on Mastodon where they're cross-posting to. So they're just dumping filler into the ecosystem, which isn't good for the health of the community as a place for living breathing human beings intent on interacting with each other.
@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
@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