Shel

@shel

The Transsexual Chofetz Chaim

she/her
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Mutant, librarian, poet, union rabble rouser, dog, Ashkenazi Jewish. Neuroweird, bodyweird, mostly sleepy.

I write about transformative justice, community, love, Judaism, Neurodivergence, mental health, Disability, geography, rivers, labor, and libraries; through poetry, opinionated essays, and short fiction.

I review Schoolhouse Rock! songs at @PropagandaRock

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Shel @shel11/9/2022, 7:41 PM

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe

Jessica @ticky11/9/2022, 5:23 PM

hot take

resist the urge to make a cohost crossposter

I just don't think it's a good idea

colin @vogon11/9/2022, 5:31 PM

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.

kata 🌊 aqua!@kadybat11/9/2022, 5:47 PM

has anyone built a cohost-to-twitter crossposter yet?

i want to put links to my cohost post on my main automatically

Shel @shel11/9/2022, 5:53 PM

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.

frankie boyle's beanbag chair of death @micolithe11/9/2022, 7:16 PM

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.

Shel @shel11/9/2022, 7:41 PM

Oh and then your home alarm system can make a post every time you leave the house :) :) :)

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in reply to @ticky's post:

jae @jkap11/9/2022, 5:25 PM

there is exactly once instance in which i think a crossposter makes sense and it's for bots. otherwise don't do that shit

Jessica @ticky11/9/2022, 5:26 PM

yeah, and for everything else, there's RSS

Jessica @ticky11/9/2022, 5:29 PM

okay you know what I have one other exception and it's postybirb, but that's more of a post distributor than a crossposter. artists can have a tool to post once, as a treat

jae @jkap11/9/2022, 5:30 PM

yeah ok i'll allow that one too

Tom (tired of the computer)@masklayer11/9/2022, 7:18 PM

As long as Marketers don't find it fsdjkl

Nero @itsnero11/9/2022, 8:32 PM

thank you, we get so few treats

Jess🌺@CyanSorcery11/9/2022, 5:58 PM

can't wait for people to set up crossposters here and then never actually participate with the site in any way whatsoever

bonus points if they @ someone on Twitter and it goes into the crossposter as @cyansorcery@twitter.com

Misty @dog11/9/2022, 6:03 PM

I’m going to be so mad if someone does this

Birdout: Paradise @SomeEgrets11/9/2022, 7:26 PM

I can't even begin the imagine how unmanageable the sheer volume of like a hundred bite sized low-content chosts one after another would be, before you get into all the duplication from shares and propagated RTs...

Also the complete lack of chill

📼 Ibly 🏳️‍⚧️ θΔ @EeveeEuphoria11/10/2022, 5:09 AM

personally i've always thought crossposters are just, terrible ideas if you use it for all your posts. like, i've used mastodon for a number of years now, and i can't even count the amount of times i've seen someone "quit twitter", join mastodon, turn on the crossposter, then give up and go back to twitter and only post using that.
it's just the lazy way out really, and i hate it every single time lol

Wishdream @wishdream11/10/2022, 5:49 AM

RSS is a thing folks ;A; Otherwise, yeah, no crossposting. Especially how WILDLY different feel the site has. Longer and slow posts, more fuller content and just I'm like... why?

in reply to @vogon's post:

gender reveal maenad @phorusrhacid11/9/2022, 5:59 PM

gonna make the cohost to linkedin crossposter

colin @vogon11/9/2022, 6:00 PM

endorsing you for terrible ideas

shaun of the 🥖@sdmouton11/10/2022, 7:53 PM

i'll endorse if you make the reverse also

codfish @codfish24611/12/2022, 2:25 AM

amazing idea

numeral @thenumeralone11/9/2022, 6:11 PM

Mrrrp, why is microblogging a scourge?

colin @vogon11/9/2022, 6:17 PM

it's fine to have thoughts that can be conveyed in 140 characters, but attempting to make that The Standard Form Of Human Communication was a horrible idea!

mastodon realized it was a bad idea, and that's why the first thing it did was lift the post length cap to 500 characters (and many masto instances lift it further!)

even twitter itself realized it was a bad idea, and that's why it increased the post length cap to 280 characters years ago, and now why it's got live voice chat + prebaked threads + audio and video posts + now long-form text articles all dangling awkwardly off the side of its core microblogging product.

numeral @thenumeralone11/9/2022, 6:44 PM

Gotcha! Thank you :3

@slimepsychic11/9/2022, 7:07 PM

a scourge? yikes on that take

@JamesWidman11/9/2022, 10:30 PM

what about the other direction? Like, what if i could check a config button that makes it so that when i post on cohost.org, cohost will automatically post on the bird site, and the content of that tweet is just the url for the chost.

colin @vogon11/9/2022, 10:32 PM

okay by me! @lexi's written one already, as well: https://cohost.org/lexi/post/244461-if-you-want-to-do-th

jess🦎 Joose🍹@jesscookie11/10/2022, 3:29 AM

ok but thank you for bringing postybirb to the light here because what the hell that thing looks like a godsend.

colin @vogon11/10/2022, 3:30 AM

🙏🙏🙏 I found out about it recently and I have no idea how I thought artists were manually posting their stuff everywhere before, that would be an enormous pain in the ass

jess🦎 Joose🍹@jesscookie11/10/2022, 3:35 AM

you would be right, it IS in fact an enormous pain in the ass!!!

in reply to @kadybat's post:

Remi Erin Autor the remeranAuthor @remeranAuthor11/9/2022, 5:56 PM

I would definitely like a thing that automatically posts from Cohost to Twitter, like, gives them a 200 character blurb and a link to my cohost post. I do NOT want the opposite AT ALL.