I use a few social media network platforms. I never used Facebook, but I started using Twitter a long time ago. A few years later, a Mastodon account was added. The “community” is wildly different. Twitter is known for powerful shit storms triggered by a few words. There is an endless discussion about which system is better. Centralised, decentralised, moderated, unmoderated, free flow, free spirit, more social, less community, stupidity filters, and more is discussed. It all boils down to the fact that small groups have a higher IQ and less evil intent on average than large groups of humans. Manipulation happens on all levels. No surprise there. This is where my observation comes into play. I frequently read the sentence “From birdsite (can be anything, sorry)” on Mastodon when someone quotes a tweet from Twitter. Why?

• “from birdsite” makes no sense. You cannot make something disappear just by refusing to call it by name. It’s the same as saying “because of the sun” instead of using references to the climate change.
• “can by anything” makes even less sense. If you squeeze data into the maximum length of a tweet or a toot, then you will have to leave out some information. Furthermore, if I can write anything by using a microblogging account, then the published text will be anything. So anything you quote, be it tweet, toot or fart, will most likely be anything.
• “sorry” is at the top of making no sense at all. If you don’t want to mention Twitter, have realised that microblogging platforms can be used by anyone or anything, then why the hell would you be sorry? If you really were sorry, then you wouldn’t cross-post the information.

From my blog (can be anything, sorry). 😂