@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.

@outeast @KimCrayton1

No, it's also disbelief that there are positive uses, as I said.

Here's one example (from my now abandoned mastodon.cloud account, RIP!).

Geoff starts out saying I'm disingenuous, then that this can't be how Black people use the feature because he's never seen it used that way, despite the fact that he doesn't interact with many (any?) Black users on Twitter.

https://mastodon.cloud/@mekkaokereke/109359366766816080

Please, don't use this to bother him. Let him be!

@Dubikan @outeast @KimCrayton1

I'm not saying QTs didn't have toxic uses. I'm saying 2 very specific things, with concrete examples:

1) Black Twitter used QTs differently
2) Some Mastodon folk refuse to believe that Black folk used it differently, and speak dismissively to Black folk about QTs having no real alternate uses

I do understand that many trans folk helped build early Mastodon. I also understand that Black trans folk exist.

@Dubikan @outeast @KimCrayton1

Building a space that works for Black trans folk is a better goal.

And the "No QTs!" folk didn't have that hard a time convincing cishet folk here of the problems, as evidenced by the fact that there are no QTs here, never have been any here, and the topic itself is almost verboten.

But hey. I'm not even tripping if there are no QTs. I'm mainly talking about the way Black user concerns are dismissed out of hand.