Clive ThompsonNov 15, 2022

A terrific thread by @shengokai about why the absence of quote-tweeting on Mastodon can be a road-block to the organic formation of something like Black Twitter here: https://zirk.us/@shengokai/109346991978893779

Quote-tweeting allows for a style of call-and-response interaction; lose it and you lose that too

Dr. Johnathan Flowers (@[email protected])

I'm converting my mastodon critiques into a word document that I will likely use to post mastodon local versions of those large threads about mastodon that I've made on twitter. Having said that, I'm not really "anti-mastodon," as much as I am trying to point out that the fediverse does not have the tools to support the ways that marginalized groups built community on the bird site. And it really comes down to affordances of the platforms.

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Show threadmxtiffanyleighNov 15, 2022

@clive This is a great point. I also think the problem with everyone having the same tools at their social media disposal is that they can all be weaponized. So QT's and tagging in folks is as vital to Black Twitter as it is a harassment tool of aggression used by trolls and bad actors.

One facet of my Twitter burnout was the fact that the syntax and language and grammar over there is shared and deployed regardless of whether someone was an ally or a trashbag.

Show threadClive Thompson

@mxtiffanyleigh

Yep yep

There is really no affordance that has no troubling implications or uses -- the presence of QTs, the absence of QTs

Nov 15, 2022 at 3:20pmWeb