I know it’s tempting but I wish people would reflect before using Mastodon simply to post links to Twitter. It just pushes the conversation and engagement back there. If you see content over there that you think worth sharing, why not just share the content here and start a new conversation?
I realise I’ve done it myself occasionally, and also I hate seeing lectures from strangers telling me how to use the platform, so ymmv, I’m merely venting.
@ottocrat It also creates hardly readable posts. Whatever we write on @GlasgowLovesEU's twitter it's properly copy/pasted over and then adjusted for mastdon. Affer all the communities are different.
What a shame is that #quotetweeting won't work, for example quoting our live stream and then when requesting that feature being #mastodonplained by random strangers that "this is not twitter or go back".
@berndporr @ottocrat @GlasgowLovesEU
Given that its most common use is to dunk on people, I find in practice I don't miss quote-tweeting. There's something very passive-aggressive about it a lot of the time. Also, i don't miss the tendency for high-follower accounts to use it in place of replying.
@berndporr @ottocrat @GlasgowLovesEU That is to put it mildly an elaboration on your part of anything I've actually said. I said I don't miss a feature based on ways I've seen it used. However I did however say "most common use". That was indeed inexact. I'll change that to "the use that leaves the most overwhelming impression on me." I'm going to disengage now because you're obviously upset.
@pieist @ottocrat @GlasgowLovesEU Do you have any proof for that except that it appears to be a religious belief here? Apart from giving context, for example to our live streams it also does that what the web is good for: cross referencing -- in a good way. After all you are assuming with prejudice that people will use #quotetweets in a malucious way. My experience running multiple social media accounts does not confirm an overall malicious intent when #quotetoot. Quite the opposite.