Gregory's Server@Gargron This is a good decision. More than just spreading bad ideas, quoting encourages snark instead of sincerity. It's so toxic on twitter in part, I believe, because of quote tweets.
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@a_breakin_glass @Gargron Snark _is_ horrible and I'm glad that Mastodon isn't structured to encourage it. Social networks should encourage sincerity and a sense of earnest care. @ashfurrow @gargron one person's method of relieving tension is another's horrible I guess. and I doubt a social network can encourage sincerity, tbh, for a variety of reasons. the façade constructed by social media in-and-of-itself for one. @a_breakin_glass You don't think that software can be designed to encourage types of behaviour eh? Or discourage it? @a_breakin_glass that’s not what I said, let’s leave the goalposts where they are. Can software be designed to encourage or discourage behaviour in its users?  @ashfurrow @Gargron OTOH I think that this changes a bit when notifying the quoted person (like twitter does nowadays), and I *did* see it used a lot in friendly ways as well, like "look at this great thread about XYZ, which is super interesting because (short introduction or additional explanation or personal relation)" @Doomed_Daniel @ashfurrow @Gargron True, in my bubble things changed to highlighting notable threads (at least this would be a preferable usage of rt with comment). |
@ashfurrow @gargron oh no! not snark! how horrible.