Re: Solutions to help organisations mirror their antisocial media posts to mastodon?

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Dec 24, 2023, Yuchen Pei <id@ypei.org> wrote:

> Hold on a moment. AFAIK if you check a xitter account on nitter, or
> follow multiple xitter accounts through Squawker, you get a timeline
> which is a anti-chronological list of posts by these accounts with no
> dodgy algorithm.

Even if the account is shadow-banned?  (I really don't know, but I'd be
surprised if their shadow-ban could be circumvented so trivially)

> I don't know what it is like on xitter itself, but a
> bridge/client on mastodon to xitter should simply be able to allow users
> to subscribe to any xitter accounts they like, get their posts,
> comment/boost them etc without filtering/promotion by xitter.

I also took into account the indirect effects of driving attention to
the platform, which may get some users to join it.

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