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 threadDianne HackbornNov 28, 2022

@mekkaokereke

There is an active feature request for QRTs: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/20673

Some of the discussion has revolved around a more controlled form, where a poster would indicate whether a post is okay to use in a QRT. Though it doesn't sound like that would still serve the purpose you are describing? (It looks like there has been a lot more discussion in that feature request since I last looked at it, though!)

Might be worth commenting there.

user-controlled, abuse-resistent quote-boosting · Issue #20673 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch This is extracted from #309. I suggest adding the following to mastodon settings and implementing the respective feature: Users that are in at least one of the following groups may quote-boos...

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Show threadScott Jenson
@edk You might want to check this out.
Nov 28, 2022 at 6:01amWeb