Just wanted to state that Treehouse .social has my full support in implementing quote posts in their own Mastodon fork, and I will also support broad adoption. Designing your network toward healthy behavior is valid praxis, but this decision isn't effective against deliberate abuse and it prevents a great deal of valid use. It only blunts a lamentable, but surmountable, ill tendency in all of us cultivated by prior forms like Twitter, with a comprehensive environment of toxic contributors.
@bobbyd0g I still don't like QTs (but not because of the same "Abuse" argument) but people voted for it so it has my support
@ionizedgirl It gives power to my worst inclinations, but those occupy far less space (and are quite otherwise surmountable) than the positive contributions the additional effort and ill-function baffled me from producing
@bobbyd0g I just think QTs have an even worse chain-email and doomscrolling effect on the TL
@ionizedgirl You're right -- the aesthetic and emotional-environmental effects on the feed are something I don't consider often enough.
@bobbyd0g but im also already kinda over the whole debate. Clearly a majority want it and also marginalized people want it so w/e lets go
@ionizedgirl That effect certainly does potentiate the move and has overwhelmed my doubts. We just can't lose sight of the criticism because it will shape our use of the feature going forward. We're all perfectly capable of sliding back into toxic forms if they are incentivized by the system. I just think that, with a social effort, what vestiges of such remain could be bested. The unaccountable, well-excused, thinly statistical algorithm was the most powerful actor before.
["this decision" == the decision to omit quote post functionality] -- this is not to damn the decision from the beginning; it worked in its capacity for the time, and now its ratio of cost to effectiveness is no longer acceptable for the network