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 threadJay RosenNov 21, 2022
@clive @shengokai For me the lack of quote-tweeting is a significant loss. It was probably the best tool ever invented for a press critic.
Show threadClive ThompsonNov 21, 2022

@jayrosen_nyu @shengokai

Yep, there are definitely things lost without having that built in

Show threadJames GleickNov 21, 2022
@clive @jayrosen_nyu @shengokai Has anyone found a next-best substitute for quote-tweeting? Does it suffice to copy a link to a post and include that in your new post? Or is there anything better?
Show threadAaron Ross Powell ☸️
@JamesGleick
There are Mastodon clients that turn links in posts into link previews, which isn't a feature of the native web client. Seems like something similar could happen with QTs. So include a link to the post, as you've offered as an option, and the app or web front end can format it as a Twitter style QT. And that can happen without any changes to the base Mastodon code.
@clive @jayrosen_nyu @shengokai
Nov 21, 2022 at 2:07pmFedilab