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renatolond / mastodon-twitter-poster

Crossposter to post statuses between Mastodon and Twitter
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Link to Mastodon post on posts Mastodin => Twitter #164

Closed stevenroose closed 1 year ago

stevenroose commented 5 years ago

Now it seems like I'm just using Twitter. I want it to be clear that it's just a mirror of my Mastodon identity.

Either by setting a prefix or with a link to the original post in the suffix.

renatolond commented 5 years ago

Hi! I have to look into this, since in the past the crossposter got tagged by twitter as spam for mastodon links (since they all look very similar, with very small differences). In the instance of the crossposter I run, the one at masto.donte.com.br, I've disabled boosts crossposting to twitter exactly because of this. Technically is not hard, but I have to check if I wouldn't be risking getting tagged by twitter as spam again.

stevenroose commented 5 years ago

@renatolond ah so in a self-hosted instance it would be possible?

stevenroose commented 5 years ago

Then perhaps have a config setting "allow linking from twitter" and in case it's false, grey out the checkbox in the web page with the explanation that the instance disabled the feature. This way, users know that it's because of SPAM reasons and know they can get the feature by self-hosting :)

knuxify commented 5 years ago

How about putting the links through a link shortener like bit.ly? I'd say Twitter wouldn't ban (as in, suspend temporarily/pernamently for spam) users of common link shorteners, but I've never actually tried.\

EDIT: Also, we could only attach links to parent posts for threads.

renatolond commented 5 years ago

As far as I can tell (from the experience with previous false positives in the crossposter), it seems twitter uses different filters, one of them being the app that's posting the links. That is, even though the crossposter posts link from different Mastodon and Pleroma instances, if they all look like random.domain.com/@user/100000123456 or something slightly different in the case of pleroma, I do think it would be picked up as Spam by twitter automated detection.

I feel that the case of threads might be mitigated, but I'm not even sure it's the worst of it, though I don't have the numbers at hand.

In any case, my idea for this one is following what steven proposed, implementing it with a feature toggle to be enabled/disabled by the crossposter instance admin.

saschafoerster commented 3 years ago

Either by setting a prefix or with a link to the original post in the suffix.

Or both! :) I was searching for this feature. I also want to show on every tweet, that it comes from a main-account on Mastodon. So I think it would be great to have just a prefix and a postfix, where you can add stuff like [Copy from Mastodon] or #Mastodon or the URL to the toot. The URL to the toot would maybe also only be needed, if the 280 signs are not enough.

valerio-bozzolan commented 3 years ago

Most of the people using Mastodon is interested in spreading Mastodon.

TBH just a footer with "Posted via Mastodon" is enough to make me happy.

valerio-bozzolan commented 3 years ago

Is anyone interested in having at least a "Posted via Mastodon" text (without any link - to do not trigger Twitter anti-spam stuff) in the footer, as temporary compromise?

valerio-bozzolan commented 2 years ago

Is anyone interested in having at least a "Posted via Mastodon" text (without any link - to do not trigger Twitter anti-spam stuff) in the footer, as temporary compromise?

@stevenroose what do you think about?

saschafoerster commented 2 years ago

In the meantime, I started using N8N.io, so I can create postings in all different styles as I like them. Of course, I needed to create my own Twitter-app-secrets with API-access. #Workaround