@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.

@mekkaokereke

Thinking more... with the ability to reply to a thread, and then boost that reply, what if there was a "context boost" thing which boosted your reply with the thing you replied to included in the boost like a QRT?

There are a lot of fascinating UX design problems here between serving user needs vs. creating incentives against negative behavior that hopefully someone will be interested in really digging into.

@hackbod

Yeah! I think there are a number of UX options that we can explore to keep the good, while minimizing the bad.

Once we acknowledge that the reduced toxicity feels good, but also acknowledge that there were other valid use cases for QTs, then we can talk about better options/tradeoffs in a way that doesn't make Black and brown users feel ignored.♥️👍🏿

Even if the solution does end up being "Sorry, still no QTs!"

@mekkaokereke @hackbod If you have an Android phone, install the #Megalodon app.

A long press of the Boost icon allows you to #QuoteBoost.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.joinmastodon.android.sk