Kim Crayton ~ Her/SheNov 27, 2022
Ok, one of the main Twitter features that I’m definitely missing is the quote retweet because it’s been an important and impactful teaching strategy…it enables me to highlight an issue/concern by adding often missing perspectives/voices/narratives/historical framing/etc
Show threadmekka okereke Nov 28, 2022

@KimCrayton1

Yup. Most of Black Twitter used QRTs differently.

A lot of non-Black Twitter only saw it where accounts with millions of followers would pick on a small account to get their followers to dogpile.

Most of Black Twitter used it exactly as you described... The online equivalent of Black folk talking *to each other* about some nonsense that someone in a position of power said.

The problem here is that the non-Black folks don't believe the other use cases.

Show threadTim Bray
@mekkaokereke @KimCrayton1 Betcha $10 we get QT back soon, because on top of the #BlackTwitter vibe, lots of pale people want it back too, and there's no actual technical barrier, and the software is open source. So probably it'll start showing up on a few instances but not others. Probably everywhere eventually.
Nov 28, 2022 at 2:32amWeb
Show threadWill Norris 🦦Nov 28, 2022
@timbray @mekkaokereke @KimCrayton1 the vocabulary certainly supports it. It was even called out as an explicit use case (then "reposts") in the original 2011 #ActivityStreams spec https://activitystrea.ms/specs/json/1.0/#activity-object
Activity Streams Working Group: JSON Activity Streams 1.0

JSON Activity Streams 1.0

Show threadWill Norris 🦦Nov 28, 2022
@timbray @mekkaokereke @KimCrayton1 though maybe that's just boosts? I can't recall how we modelled an additional comment on top of the repost, but I know it was possible b/c we did that in the Google+ API which was largely based on activity streams. (Veering from the original topic into technical minutia; apologies)
Show threadDavid GerardDec 24, 2022
@timbray it already is and further implementations are in progress.