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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@gnusocial.net)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:06:03 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • K. J. R.
   I don't mean to invalidate your feeling nor your pain, but I hope the following can offer some relief (or additional pain, depending on how you take it). I'm sorry for your pain, and more so if I'm just about to make it grow, rather than relieving it as I hope.
   
   a QT is just a single-button interface to combine two otherwise available features, namely quoting and commenting. consider:
   
   > it was used as a way of harassment.
   
   that you posted, and my comments around it.
   
   before QT was available as this combined feature elsewhere, people would just explicitly quote and comment in a single post.
   
   so I question the perception that QT is a source of troublesome behavior. ISTM that it might have just as legitimately be blamed on the feature that enable people to post their own thoughts, quoting others or not. the association with QT is probably accidental, and whoever set out to harass you would have carried that out regardless of the feature.
   
   but the problem IMHO is not in the feature, be it QT, be it posting in general, but in the harasser's behavior. trolls will search for and find ways to abuse systems, and every time we give up a useful feature because someone might put it to bad use, they defeat us a little (or a lot).
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     K. J. R. (kjr@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:06:04 JST K. J. R.

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo it was used as a way of harassment.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:06:05 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     • K. J. R.

     @kjr How is it sensative? Functionally speaking it is literally the same as someone posting a link to your toot in their own toot. The only difference is that link gets rendered rather than showing as a link. What exactly is the concern here?

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     K. J. R. (kjr@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:06:06 JST K. J. R.

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     • 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     @freemo mmm... I don't like it really. Is there an option to avoid it as a user, not giving permission to do it?
     If I move to an instance which doesn't support it, qoto or other instances which support QT can yet quote my posts?
     Is it a sensitive issue for me.

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 26-Dec-2022 06:06:07 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     Just a reminder, there are tons of servers on the fediverse with quote toot feature, and they all follow the same standard. QOTO is a mastodon instance with Quote toots for example. Fedibird is also a very large server that is mastodon based that has the feature. All Misskey servers also have the feature.