But when a platform goes down, you end up with the problem of having to export and backup your data again. You can delete (or maybe even edit) them, yes. But especially the user handles can be problematic because people might not know what to do with them or why they look so differently.īut even if you are fine with all that, cross-posting doesn’t solve one of the biggest problems when it comes to posting content online: if you post your thoughts into a silo like Twitter, they are, to a certain extent, out of your control. This can look like you don’t really care about the people spending time on the other platform. Your tweets might contain user handles from Mastodon that don’t exist on Twitter or a Mastodon post could contain a “RT” (for retweet) or quoted tweets. For one, it can look a little weird when your posts on one platform obviously look like they have been written for another platform. There are, however, a few problems that come with cross-posting from one platform to another.

One of the first questions that comes to mind is: how can I post on both Twitter and Mastodon so that I don’t have to post my status updates separately? A good idea and something that can be done in various ways. And so, many are moving from Twitter to other social networks like micro.blog or Mastodon or are at least trying out those other options while waiting how things might develop.

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