James PoniewozikA lot of Mastodon advice I’m seeing seems to be geared toward “How to replicate your Twitter experience” or “Can Mastodon replicate your Twitter experience?”
But… I don’t WANT to replicate my Twitter experience. 1/more
My Twitter experience was kinda bad for me! It was good for a long time, but it was also bad. I’m not talking about the takeover by Captain 420, or people tweeting mean things at me. I mean the constantly feeling like a exposed nerve. The “let me show you this awesome new thing to be mad about!”
I love, for instance, that Mastodon doesn’t have the equivalent of a QT. There are plenty other platforms to do the “Hey, look at this asshole here” thing. The, “Does this smell bad to you?” thing. /2
Ben Rosengart@poniewozik @Npars01 This is the platform where I want to say, “hey, look at this neat thing,” or, “I want to go on a tangent from this,” or, “I want to share this and add some context.”
Just because you can’t think of anything more interesting to do with a QT than dunk on someone, doesn’t mean thousands of people don’t use it every day in cool and constructive ways.