“Procrastination is not a result of laziness or poor time management. Scientific studies suggest procrastination is due to poor mood management.": mitchw.blog

@MitchW Hey - instead of posting twice on two different accounts, you can set it up where one redirects to the other. It’s a bit convoluted but you lose no followers and they don’t have to do anything to keep up with your posts. https://mstdn.social/@feditips/107939441820299376

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@podfeet Problem is one of my accounts—this one—is a micro.blog account, not Mastodon, though Mastodon users can follow the micro.blog account. I also have a Mastodon account for things that micro.blog does not support. It’s a bit clumsy, but I figure the fediverse is still in early days and things will be more convenient in a few months or a year.

@MitchW i have the same set up, with a slight difference. I rarely (if ever) dual post - rather I use my ’real
’ masto account to follow my MB masto - and selectively boost posts I want in both places.

@JohnPhilpin Hmmmm… until now, I have resisted doing that, because the @micro.blog masto (technically speaking, it’s ActivityPub not Masto, but calling it Masto for this discussion is fine) truncates at 280 characters, rather than the full Masto 500. My workaround is to syndicate from MB to Masto and then edit the syndicated post when needed.

But your solution might be better. And I can still post directly to Masto when I’d rather do that.

For literally the past 15 years, I’ve been publishing a lot of the same content to multiple platforms, and have wished there was a better way to do it than a lot of cutting-and-pasting.

@podfeet

@JohnPhilpin @poddfeet Also, I do a lot of my linkposting and posting memes and vintage photos to a Tumblr account, at atomicrobot.live. I post the same to a Facebook group, but Facebook might as well be invisible to the fediverse.

@MitchW by starting with MB - I find that editing posts to the ‘lowest common denominator’ is best - and Masto then just works. That said - sure would be nice to have more characters 🤷🏼‍♂️

@JohnPhilpin I seem to take as much pleasure from fiddling with my social media and blogging set up as I do from actually using social media and blogging. 

@MitchW with you there! Might explain my 8 twitter accounts - that of course now lay dormant!

@MitchW Ah, I see the problem. I’m seeing all of your posts twice - so I guess I have to choose which one is the _real_ Mitch?

@podfeet I reply and boost from my @mitchw account, so, if you’re interested in seeing those things, follow me there. If you just want to see my posts, and not the replies and boosts, follow me here. 

@JohnPhilpin I have, or had, one Twitter account for myself. As you say, it’s dormant.  or nearly so – I occasionally send a reply or DM from there. I’ve also had about a dozen branded accounts for companies over the years. 

@MitchW now if had the excuse of running twitter accounts for others I wouldn’t feel so bad .. sadly all mine are mine … what was I THINKING!

@MitchW@mitchw.blog @mitchw@mastodon.social Hmmm. I seem to see both accounts saying the same thing one right after another. There must be a union of the two sets at some point. I’ll just keep following both. Who would want to take a chance at missing any of your brilliance, right?

@podfeet NOW YOU’RE SETTING THE BAR TOO HIGH AND I AM GETTING PERFORMANCE ANXIETY!!!!!!!!

I’m aiming for “not a complete waste of time.” “Brillianc”e is over-ambitious.

@JohnPhilpin Makes sense to have special accounts for special purposes. Eight is possibly excessive. :)

On my Tumblr, I share everything I post here, plus ephemeral media I find on the Internet–vintage ads and photos, memes, funny tweets, etc. I used to use Twitter the same way. Lately I think the people who are interested in my perspective might not be interested in all taht other stuff. Also, as a platform, micro.blog is not suited for sharing a lot of ephemera, whereas Tumblr is.

@MitchW I do miss your ephemeral media here. Admittedly, it could get overwhelming if you were prolific on a particular day but always enjoyed it. I assume you don’t monitor responses to those posts coz I had replied to a few of them.

@pratik I was off micro.blog for a while, and only checking replies very sporadically. Currently doing the ephemera on atomicrobot.live and www.facebook.com/groups/at… Thinking about maybe bringing them back here in some fashion. Hopefully, Tumblr will get ActivityPub support sooner rather than later–I know it’s in the pipeline.

And I’m glad you enjoyed the posts!

@pratik this is why we need lists and filters on our respective streams.