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 @Gargron Honestly, I don't think mastodon is nicer because of the lack of quotes, it's nicer because there's no profit driven company behind it. I think quotes will be just fine, although it would be very nice if we'd get control about who can quote our posts. 3 comments
@lydiaconwell @Gargron Yeah it is something that occurred to me after posting that. I was only thinking about the people who are quoted by people so that their bad actor followers can mob them, as is pretty common in the fowl place. But yeah, it can also be used to make it harder to draw attention to abusive posts. It's a complicated feature, and the real question is if the lack of quoting really stopped the mobbing in the first place, as we don't have any data on that except our gut feelings. @ainmosni @lydiaconwell @Gargron just needs the quoted person to be allowed to delete the qt (and for instances to be banned if they don't) |
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@ainmosni Interesting point about users controlling who can quote-toot you. But doesn't that negate the purpose of quote-tooting? Bad actors and people who deliberately mislead might just disable all quote features so people won't expose their lies and poor arguments. @Gargron