@evan agree, the auto re-posting from twitter is no way to shape a conversation - if I wanted to see it on twitter, I'd be there.

@evan It's been a breath of fresh air here! Not missing the bird. Left it 100% two weeks ago.

@evan @craignewmark my favorite part of any new social network (Friendster, tribe, MySpace, orkut, Facebook, twitter, etc) is finding people I know. Or people I would like to know.

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I would love a feature in Mastodon where I can hide posts that are simply Twitter reposts, especially those where in order to really read the post you have to click on a Twitter link and give Apartheid Elmo more traffic...

@evan The #1 piece of advice I give everybody getting started on Mastodon is to engage in conversation. You get out of the platform what you put into it.

@evan @CarlataOld I filter out RT @

Not super interested in what people still using Twitter have to say

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I don’t get leaving bird land just to opine about it here.

@evan what I love the most about being here is that it’s free — subscription free, ad free. There is nothing else like what we have here right now.

@evan I'm here.

@evan Hmm. Be here now. Where have I heard that before? Oh well, it’ll come to me sooner or later.

@evan Agree about the squatting. I’ve re-followed everyone since I moved over here but over the weekend I’m planning un-following those with zero posts.

@evan that's my intent. All the people who show up and then start trying to design politics and policies of exclusion while calling it the opposite do make it harder for me to care.

@evan Agreed. it's still early days, so I'm letting people transition as they need to, but eventually I'll mute or block that kind of thing.

@evan As is often the case – "The medium is the message." Reposts always feel odd because they are odd. Referencing accounts that exist elsewhere. Ignoring best practices for a platform. "1 of 8 that could just be a single post with the increase in available characters but here we go.."

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@evan@prodromou.pub +1

@evan I’m starting to mute / unfollow people who are doing this

@evan But will they see this?!

@evan as a twit refugee, I'm watching and still learning.
The twitter cross posts without any CW I already find annoying. I want to see them myself, but I can see why many users don't, especially political posts.
I often want to boost them but don't because they lack a CW.
As for my own posts, I'm still getting a feel for it.

@evan I just said a couple of things to someone. Agree. Be here.

@evan I've been saying we should enjoy Mastodon / Fediverse for what it is, rather than for what it isn't.

@evan There's a ton of reposts. I ignore most of those as trash. Some people are out there begging to become big names here that were followed by thousands of fake followers on birdsite. I ignore them too.

@evan trying to. But currently I'm mostly just getting used to things.

@evan Yes please! I was just invited to join and betatest Post, and found that the content is mostly posted from Twitter or links to Twitter. Seriously, who needs that?