@vortex_egg @Pwnallthethings @malwaretech @caderoux @mattblaze

Of course, I could be wrong. And maybe I'm more easily tempted into malicious behavior than I think I am ...

@Pwnallthethings @vortex_egg @malwaretech @caderoux @mattblaze
Here's a couple use cases where, in a previous life, I would have used QT.

What's the Mastodon-native way to do these? I'll be happy to adopt it. Is it anything more than screenshot & link?

In all of these, I'm trying to
1) provide context or highlight something particular in the original post/thread
2) make it easy and compelling for a reader to go to the original post
3) make it easy to follow the poster

@colo_lee @Pwnallthethings @vortex_egg @malwaretech @caderoux @mattblaze

i think the main problem with all of these is who you're communicating with

you're not talking to the poster, you're not engaging in the conversation, you're talking to your followers ABOUT the post/poster

so even if you use it for a good cause (and your list certainly is that), qt still encourages soapboxing, so we start posting performatively and insincerely, often even without noticing

@almostconverge @Pwnallthethings @vortex_egg @malwaretech @caderoux @mattblaze

That's true -- in every case, I'm moving the conversation away from the original poster.
I think this can be a good thing to do: Talk about things sparked by the original post w/o centering the first speaker.

Obviously, yr mileage may vary. But there are real cases where the polite thing to do is to reframe the topic along w/ an audience change.

You can make your own judgments about whether I'm acting sincerely.