Tom WalkerNov 19, 2022

On the "quote tweet" debate:

QT is one of several decisions that made Twitter into a place where powerful or 'influential' people post, and most of the other posts are reactions to that material – agreement, dunks, critiques, jokes, etc.

Even if people didn't always use it for that themselves, it was part of creating the overall feeling that there is one big topic under discussion at any given time – and so of course you add your opinion on that topic.

Not having QT also encourages replies!

Show threadwoolieNov 19, 2022
@tomw yes, and that’s one thing I liked about twitter.
Show threadTom WalkerNov 19, 2022

@wooliex The feeling of a shared moment, you mean?

It was memorable... I'm not sure it was healthy though. Mass global fixation on what was usually some trivia or 'bad tweet'.

Show threadwoolie
@tomw no, I mean, what you consider the bad and unhealthy parts of twitter are what I enjoyed most.
Nov 19, 2022 at 10:31pmMastodon for iOS
Show threadTom WalkerNov 19, 2022

@wooliex Well yes, that is the general direction of a lot of the "I'm not moving to Mastodon" tweets on Twitter as well.

I'm not saying something so daft here as "jokes are unhealthy", if you were taking that as a list of "unhealthy" things. What is unhealthy is the Twitter culture of thousands of people making the *same* joke about the *same* thing at the *same* time often in response to the *same* original tweet.

Show threadwoolieNov 19, 2022
@tomw Yes, the thingd I found fun and exciting and kept me addicted. Regardless, QT’s only require client side support, no protocol or backend changes necessary, so I think they will make it into mainstream Mastadon client software relatatively quickly.