Gregory's ServerIn the past, I've had accounts that crossposted to Twitter, but I've ultimately either disconnected the crossposting or let the accounts go defunct. And gradually I've come to the conclusion that crossposting undermines the goal of building a better social media ecosystem. It provides people with an excuse for staying on corporate social media and encourages them to see it as your responsibility to deliver your posts to them wherever they already have an account.
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@lrhodes and also if you ask a question and it gets crossposted; and someone goes to actual time and effort to answer it; perhaps with an essay length history of a subject; it’s insulting if you don’t bother to even read it cos you’re not even looking at that platform you supposedly want to better.   @lrhodes I agree. My current approach is to have specific and very limited accounts on corporate platforms for communicating with the people who use them (very specific to topic interests). By having a website and pointing to it as my "home" anyone interested in deeper connections can dig further and see how much more beyond the surface there is. @lrhodes so much this, honestly. People need to commit or it never works. Because maybe at the root of it... we don't all need social media. |
I'm not saying never crosspost. I'm willing to grant that there are probably some circumstances in which a limited degree of automated crossposting makes sense. But if your goal is to encourage people to migrate to a healthier social media environment, then it makes sense to be very thoughtful and restrained about how you mirror posts from one platform to another. And I don't think we're thoughtful enough about it. I certainly wasn't.