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
yes there are benign, helpful uses for QTs, as there are for most dangerous tools but imo the negatives FAR outweigh the positives
anyone who's been on twitter knows probably 80% of QTs are negative interactions and de facto invitations for followers to dogpile a target, to the point where larger accounts not wanting to be responsible for one will post screenshots instead of QTing directly
and yes I saw that post by that Twitter guy who says THE NUMBERS SHOW that they don't increase harassment, and to that I say LMFAOOO
why the fuck do you think EVERY troll used them? bc due to some blind spot in Twitter Support you can say shit in a QT that would get you INSTA BANNED if it were a reply
I assume that wouldn't be the case here, but just speaking to the idiocy of Twitter employees, who have never and still do not understand the platform, AT ALL
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