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   Inertial Invites (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 10:01:34 JST Inertial Invites

   You can quote-toot now, you just can't tell when it happens to you. How is that safer than baking it into the platform? #subtoot

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     Inertial Invites (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Jun-2024 23:27:22 JST Inertial Invites

     • Flash Mob Of One

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     Yes, point being that if someone wants to harass you, they can do so without you knowing. If you bake QT into the platform, then the people who get QTed get a notification when you do it, which doesn't make QT any less available or more prone to harassment than the current situation. Plus it's more accessible to screen readers and it preserves the current state of the toot you're quoting.

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     Inertial Invites (intransitivelie@beige.party)'s status on Wednesday, 05-Jun-2024 01:07:07 JST Inertial Invites

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     I mean, I don't care, Mastodon can continue to refuse to provide QT functionality, but it's important to recognize that they're not refusing out of an abundance of caution. I'm not interested in Mastodon being like Twitter. It just seems... foolish at best, and dangerous at worst, to ignore the many people who have brought up this issue.

     But also, people who are complaining about the lack of QT need to realize that you've got the ability to do it now, it's just not perfect. Everyone wants either Twitter or the exact opposite of Twitter, and neither of them is reasonable to expect. QT already exists and the choice is whether to make it better or not. That's not not making Mastodon more like Twitter, it's just improving a feature. It's the same thing that Twitter did when they implemented QT. People were already doing it.