(You miss dunking? Have some dunk, Rich!) Move over dumbasses, here come the identitarian white liberals to show you how Mastodon should be done!!! and pave the way for minorities!! Thank goodness Black people have this unbidden pack of crackers doing vanguard service to accurately and faithfully advance their causes! To bring back … quote tweets, the healthiest feature on Twitter! What we're really missing on this website is maximum conflict.
@bobbyd0g i will just point out that
- japanese mastodon instances have quote tweets for years
- misskey has had quote tweets for years
- pleroma has had quote tweets since 2020
this entire debate is stupid and a waste of everyone's time
@ariadne @bobbyd0g This feels like the emote reactions back and forth on forums of yesteryear whose social problems boiled down to being an active moderation issue rather than a structural flaw of the mechanic.
I really hate how indiscriminate of quoting a "retweet" is but in a place with no global text search (and after hearing the perspectives of other treehouse users) I think having an implementation is better than none at all.
@conte @ariadne If the network continued to reject and effectively repel broad search, the deleterious effects of QTs would be greatly reduced from the original functionality on Twitter. However I believe we should always *consider* the way we build our systems as erecting incentive structures for users that may or may not be conducive to healthy social connection. You'll never catch me claiming QTs have no positive value, only that they can and do harm.
@bobbyd0g @ariadne That's the reason why I think a quote system that eschews the behavioral loop is better than none at all at this point, because any attempt by the user to redo it (screenshot, text copying) reintroduces the context, provenance, or reading flow isolation that encourages this behavior in the first place. Scraping is inevitable no matter how hard we run from it, but we can prevent the hands of vice from linking arms by intercepting it with a healthier ui. Hopefully.
@bobbyd0g @conte those systems have existed, and will continue to exist, sadly. it is why i recommend not using public relays, that's where scrapers get most of their data.