I have seen the downsides of the Quote Post feature on Threads lately. There it is in even wider, in constant use, because there is no shares shown on your profile.
Quoting a post often puts others in a spotlight and not always in very flattering way. I have made that mistake myself as well. It doesn’t feel good if you criticize someone this way and people start slandering and it’s out of your control. I sometimes feel like a bully using it.
So if/when we ever get a Quote Post functionality here on Mastodon, I hope it will be different. Perhaps in this case the problem is Threads and the algorithm and not the feature itself though.
@rolle It’s not the feature but the people. There are always ways to go around limitations. Screen capture is another way to do a quote-post if the will is there.
@rolle Every functionality is just that - a functionality. Dealing with humans (ab)using it is the real issue, for which smaller instances are better suited than mega ones. Human interaction just doesn’t scale.
@toddalstrom I know, been discussing about it with the devs. However, just wondering about the different sides of the feature. I hope it will be different here once it gets added as a narive feature.
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