resist the urge to make a cohost crossposter
I just don't think it's a good idea
I can say unofficially that for other platforms (tumblr, deviantart, etc.) I'm not 100% opposed to to-cohost crossposters, but I am asking directly that people not make automated twitter-to-cohost or mastodon-to-cohost crossposters. we got rid of the post length limit for a reason and that reason is that microblogging is a scourge.
it's also fine if you want to crosspost threads or even single tweets/toots by hand! but please think critically about why we didn't just fork masto in the first place.
edit: @ThePhD pointed out that this wasn't clear in my original post, but I consider PostyBirb to be one of the good kinds of crossposters; if you're making and posting stuff like art that works on all platforms equally, then crosspost away.
but text posts on twitter are so heavily constrained for the sake of a design decision that has long since been abandoned, I still stand by my belief that generically crossposting twitter/masto to cohost is a bad decision.
i want to put links to my cohost post on my main automatically
That really brings me back to the Blogger days when it was a built in feature that every time you posted a new blog post it generated a link on your Twitter. Although I don't think I want my Twitter to have every single post I share or reply to.
IFTTT integration for cohost. This way I can hook it up to homeassistant.
If I make a post: a bluetooth speaker should play thunder noises and my lights should flicker, as I have probably said something extremely stupid online.
if you want to do that or other funny stuff, have a look at my cohost -> twitter crossposter code :3
(note, this is node.js code and the twit requirement is only there if you use twitter with it)
