CatbusDec 1, 2022

QTs are overall bad & their absense helps make Mastodon 'nicer' than Twitter

as an ex-troll I know QTs are THE main weapon in the arsenal of harassment, call it the 'LibsOfTicToc Effect'.

On Twitter a malicious QT by a large account with high engagement exposes the OP to 10's or 100's of thousands of hostile eyes, with predictable results. The scale is different here, but the usage would not be

Show threadProfessor Fig dies all endings

@ancient_catbus I'm a fan of the "moderated QTs" idea, which proposes allowing users to have the following settings on accounts and individual Toots:
1. no QTs whatsoever
2. QTs, but only those approved by the user
3. open QTs a la Twitter

with #2 as the default setting

Dec 1, 2022 at 4:44amWeb
Show threadCatbusDec 1, 2022
@epistemophagy i mean yeah there are ways you can ameliorate the negative impact, but I'd much rather not let the djinn out of the bottle
Show threadjust adrienneDec 1, 2022
@epistemophagy @ancient_catbus tbh i kinda disagree about all of this? i'm old enough to remember when we just manually "QT"d on Twitter by posting links to tweets, which then got the embed card. Which is already happening here. iiuc, literally the only way Mastodon avoids already having QTs is that the software deliberately breaks embeds if it sees that it's an ActivityPub post.
Show threadjust adrienneDec 1, 2022
@epistemophagy @ancient_catbus not allowing QTs is trying to solve a social problem with a technological fix (or in this case, with a technological anti-fix). And it is, as all such cases, doomed to fail.
Show threadProfessor Fig dies all endingsDec 1, 2022
@adrienne @ancient_catbus the long webfinger of the law
Show threadjust adrienneDec 1, 2022
@epistemophagy @ancient_catbus SNRK