Just to let you know, we - the Fairphone Community - are now also on Mastodon (decentralized, open-source Micro-Blogging service, i.e. a Twitter alternative). [image] WeAreFairphone (@WeAreFairphone@social.weho.st) 3 Toots, 4 Following, 2 Followers · This is a community account. Find offi…

In the meantime I’ve set up https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ so everything appears on both Twitter and Mastodon :slight_smile:

Thank you for this. Will you also add a Mastodon link & icon under “connect” on https://www.fairphone.com/en/ ?

This is a community account and not official.

But it would make sense to add the official Mastodon account there: https://social.weho.st/@Fairphone :wink:

[image] Ingo: In the meantime I’ve set up https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/ so everything appears on both Twitter and Mastodon :slight_smile: I don’t know how this works, but it seems to result in lots of nonsense posts on mastodon. Like this: [image] I don’t know if whatever is happ…

RT means “retweet”. You basically forward someone else’s tweet to your followers.

Yeah, but what sense does it make without an answer?

Person A asks a question. Person B thinks that their followers are likely to know an answer, so person B retweets. Any of the followers of B can then answer. Indeed such retweets make less sense across services. Because someone on Mastodon would also have to have a Twitter account in order to ans…

Does Twitter’s API not allow to forward toots to @someone@twitter.com? Hm… I have a feeling that it doesn’t. Twitter isn’t too famous for being open, right? :smirk: [image] paulakreuzer: Yeah, but what sense does it make without an answer? It might still make sense for people, who are readin…

Maybe. I think it would make more sense to stop cross-posting retweets and boosts, maybe even replies too. Especially since you can hide boosts and replies from your mastodon home, but not if they come from another platform.