Taylor LorenzPeople are saying I want to bring "clout chasing" and "toxicity" to Mastodon bc I said it should add quote posts. Not true! Let me explain my thinking 1/
In my opinion, quote tweets don't lead to harassment any more than replies lead to harassment or tagging leads to harassment. The feature was born out of organic user behavior and users manually typing "RT" in front of stuff they were quote tweeting in order to share. Not having native QTs and forcing people to manually type "RT" with the text they were quote tweeting led to confusion and misinformation spreading as ppl would often alter the manual RT text! 2/
In my experience, people are far more likely to harass in the replies than in the quote posts bc quote posts posts to their own timeline. And regardless, I think having a native way to amplify and comment or add to content on a platform is really important. This is why TikTok has the Stitch and Duet function. 3/
Even on Tumblr, the Reblog feature includes the original post. Do Tumblr reblogs lead to harassment? No!! This is natural user behavior and makes the sharing of ideas, information, commentary, etc easier. It's what users will do anyway whether or not you facilitate it. By refusing to acknowledge this and making it harder for ppl however, the platform will be less useful and re-shared information will be less reliable 4/
I think if people want Mastodon to be a place where news media thrives, where ppl can openly and freely exchange ideas, amplify content etc we need a quote post/Tumblr reblog-like function. The way to curb harassment isn't to refuse key features imo, it's to give more control. For ex, giving users the ability to turn quote posts on/off, etc. And I just want to reiterate again that this is all simply my own personal perspective! I know many disagree and that's fine :D 5/
Amanda Moore>>if people want Mastodon to be a place where news media thrives
I wish I had not deleted my tweets about the Twitter/Masto culture clash that is inevitable. It's unclear to me if people realize how hostile some stuff here is to non-legacy journos and creators. If they dont want us here, that's fine, but if they do -- gotta have tools to use this for work, bc any public account of a public figure probably isn't for fun.
@noturtlesoup17 totally!!!
Bernd Porr@noturtlesoup17 @taylorlorenz I just did the mistake to reply to one of these people who were instantly protective of not having a re-toot function. 30mins later it always ends up in "Oh, that's not twitter, bro!" It needs to be constructive and not just antagonistic against twitter. I do science and pro-EU activism and the re-tweet/toots are essential here as well.
piccolbo@noturtlesoup17 @taylorlorenz Talking about culture clash, when Paul Krugman joined mastodon, somebody replied on his first post that on the fediverse (the whole thing) it's considered good fediquette to content-warning all political posts because some people are upset by politics. I am upset by cat pictures, I wouldn't dare of asking people to CW their cats.