Annalee Newitz 🍜Let me put a phrase into your mind: nonconsensual virality. It's why quote-posts on Twitter led to harassment. People's words stolen, taken out of context, used purely to incite a mob of griefers. The answer is to give #Mastodon users control over whether someone else can quote-post them, with a simple "quote or not" setting that can be set before or after the post goes up. We should be allowed to stop people from taking our posts viral without our consent.
I've been a journalist for over twenty years -- I've written for venues ranging from tiny zines to the New York Times. And I think users should have control over quote-posts. If a journo wants to report something that they can’t quote-post, I believe that the ten-second friction required to cut-and-paste some text, or to screengrab it, is helpful to the journalistic process. Taking a beat to consider whether we really want to quote something, and how we want to frame it? Literally our job.
Skeptical Eye@annaleen -
Over the years on Twitter, I have been a heavy (and I assert very fair) user of quote-retweet, and I have also been quote-retweeted a lot (and never had a problem with that).
Personally, I take great offense if someone screen grabs or copy-pastes my Tweet rather than quote-retweeting, as that deprives me of the boost, and possibly also of any credit at all. ...more...
Over the years on Twitter, I have been a heavy (and I assert very fair) user of quote-retweet, and I have also been quote-retweeted a lot (and never had a problem with that).
Personally, I take great offense if someone screen grabs or copy-pastes my Tweet rather than quote-retweeting, as that deprives me of the boost, and possibly also of any credit at all. ...more...
@annaleen -
... AND worse, I don't get notified when someone screen grabs or copy-pastes, so I don't have the opportunity to thank them, or otherwise respond.
... AND worse, I don't get notified when someone screen grabs or copy-pastes, so I don't have the opportunity to thank them, or otherwise respond.