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Yes, I'm in threads critical of Twitter linking to Mastodon. Critics of Twitter need to vote with their feet. My "spam" is on-topic in these threads.

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Its spam because all you're doing is linking to the mastodon website, instead of actually talking and joining the conversation.

I respectfully disagree. I could regurgitate the content on the website but that would hardly be any more substantive. Often these threads lead to curious people asking questions about Mastodon, and I'm happy to answer them and engage in more discussion.

The commenter above has a point. For someone who doesn’t know what mastodon is, your comment is indistinguishable from link spam.

It's not "regurgitating info", if no one ever visits the link because you didn't provide any context or information (like spam).

Please at least provide a short blurb, or some info. Just dropping a link isn’t going to be very effective. See my other comment [1] for an example.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17069429

Your entire comment was nothing but a link to Mastodon. Doing that, and not adding any other context or commentary, is spam.

Your entire comment was just repeating something someone else already said. So...

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