Goddamn, people on Mastodon can be entitled. Like, I use a Twitter cross-poster out of convenience and then *also* actively engage on Mastodon. But sure, call me a bot and dictate how I use an OPEN SOURCE AND FEDERATED SERVICE because you don’t want to see that I also use Twitter
Honestly, I think it is a huge mistake for Mastodon to not just treat Twitter like yet-another instance. At least automatically handle @-mentions in the @foo@twitter.com format. It feels like idealism to pretend Twitter doesn’t exist, but I think we should be far more realistic.
And when there’s 10× the followers and engagement on Twitter—and 90% of the interactions on Mastodon are people telling you suck for using Twitter—it makes using Mastodon a heck of a lot less fun.
And don’t get me wrong, I really like Mastodon! I have very different followers and conversations than on Twitter. But it is also unrealistic to pretend Twitter doesn’t exist. Make the software interoperate better instead of blaming users who are trying to actively use both.
bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
@cassidyjames i guess the software interoperability problems are more on the side of twitter.
