Gregory's Server@Zeke I can actually do better than anecdotal remarks; here's a great place to start on what makes Black Twitter a vibrant community and a look at what people use quotes for: https://privacy.thenexus.today/black-twitter-quoting-and-white-toxicity-on-mastodon/
And then there's Mastodon and "it's so nice here", which is to say that as soon as you posit that things aren't entirely on the up & up, people bring out the knives. A person has even told me that quoting is like heroin!
@ben_zen totally believable on the latter point. I was expressing incredulity at the other poster's claim re dog piling fwiw.
As a yte boy I've been sitting the black masto discussions out but appreciate the link--will give it a read