I like that media are finally recognizing the sharing potential on Mastodon, but dumping 15 news articles at once into timelines is a stupid move that any SoMe community manager would have been burned for like in 2010
Stop it @guardian @seattletimes
@kboyd@phpc.social@MatWright @guardian @seattletimes Could the issue actually be with their RSS publishing system?
@kboyd @guardian @seattletimes sure, but it means they aren't paying attention, or really caring - just post and hope something sticks, all that mass posting does is make me want to unfollow
@MatWright @guardian @seattletimes True, it would be nicer to space things out. If the cache settings on the RSS feed are too long of a TTL, though, it would cause that sort of lumping behaviour by default.
(Editing to add, your overall point that a human-involved approach would be better is very true.)
@kboyd @guardian @seattletimes thanks - I guess that was more my point, the human side - there was a short era on Twitter where journos would post their own articles, and got feedback, engagement - it's so much automation now, and avoiding contact
@MatWright @kboyd @guardian @seattletimes aren't these accounts at https://press.coop/about third party scrapers of official feeds? At least that's what seems to be said here.