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 endingsDec 1, 2022

@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

Show threadCatbus
@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
Dec 1, 2022 at 4:45amWeb