James PoniewozikA lot of Mastodon advice I’m seeing seems to be geared toward “How to replicate your Twitter experience” or “Can Mastodon replicate your Twitter experience?”
But… I don’t WANT to replicate my Twitter experience. 1/more
My Twitter experience was kinda bad for me! It was good for a long time, but it was also bad. I’m not talking about the takeover by Captain 420, or people tweeting mean things at me. I mean the constantly feeling like a exposed nerve. The “let me show you this awesome new thing to be mad about!”
I love, for instance, that Mastodon doesn’t have the equivalent of a QT. There are plenty other platforms to do the “Hey, look at this asshole here” thing. The, “Does this smell bad to you?” thing. /2
Alan Sepinwall@poniewozik The lack of QT is a mixed bag for me. On the one hand, I'm entirely with you that too many of my Twitter follows would use it to put stuff in my timeline just designed to upset me. On the other, I used it a lot to more easily discuss things that are on-topic to what I cover, and what people presumably were following me for.
@sepinwall So far I haven't found it much of a limitation. I can still use links. But it does force me to think about what kinds of posts I want to dfo here. I do think the McLuhan principle applies, if you reproduce the same functionality as Twitter, you'll get Twitter.