Good article to share with friends you want to introduce to #Mastodon!
@SandyKendell what’s the article?
@suziwalks Were you able to find the link? I know not all #Mastodon instances support quoting Toots like the one I'm on does. Wondering if that affects how others see my re-toot.
@suziwalks @SandyKendell What?!? Is that accurate?!? 🧐 i thought quote toots were evil in this environment and the cause of all badness in social media! They must defederate qoto🤣
@mguhlin @suziwalks Well, I don't think quote tooting is evil in and of itself. I like sharing what someone else said and adding my $0.02. 😜 We do have it on qoto. See the quote marks as an option in the attached screenshot.
@suziwalks @mguhlin @SandyKendell
Each instance to its own but to discursively add my $0.02, I think it's worth remembering who the Mastodon natives are: largely folks who've found the structure of other social media platforms facilitated abusive behaviour. Quote-Tweeting (like sub-tweets) isn't discursive and invites a, "look at this fool & my hot-take" approach. Im guilty of this! I struggle to see what social benefit it offers that warrants the risk here.
@petrrpeasey @suziwalks @mguhlin Makes sense but also easy to screenshot or link to another Toot. Unfortunately rudeness will find a way...
@SandyKendell @suziwalks @mguhlin 100%, although screen-shots are frownd upon in most instances & likely to lead somone to point that out. That's the mix we twitter folk aren't used to: system regulation/design, admin oversight, community/cultural policing.
This guide was super helpful to me:
https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon
Forgive if that's the same 1- My instance doesn't do quotes! 🤣 I keep wanting things then remind myself: I'm a wilful migrant to a platform of forced migrants. Its their culture.
@petrrpeasey @SandyKendell @suziwalks Every culture is changed. I bet there is a professor somewhere studying the interaction and licking their lips over their next research publication. :-)
@mguhlin @SandyKendell @suziwalks yeah, there have been Toots on that, too. I'd quote them, but... you'll see my interactions with them on my TL.
Some of extant community is very nervous about both scholarly and journalistic interest. Anyone going down that route should remind themselves of the late 20th CT. self-reflection that took place in anthropology and think twice. If anyone writes THAT paper, it should be a Mastodon native to avoid a zoological take.
@suziwalks @mguhlin server/instance
@mguhlin @SandyKendell ah. I’m willing to learn the new customs…
@SandyKendell @suziwalks Wow, Qoto instance doesn't block any other servers. I wonder if that freedom extends to the ci.im instance that harassed a physics professor, a person of color, resulting in its being defederated. @DianMo is caught up in trying to leave but is locked in because others have blocked her instance. Will qoto accept her transfer?
@mguhlin @suziwalks @DianMo Qoto hasn't blocked other servers, but has silenced some. See explanation at bottom of this page: https://qoto.org/about/more
@mguhlin @suziwalks As for @DianMo, if I were her I'd delete my account and restart elsewhere. Smallish number of followers and following not worth staying on a server where it looks like highly inappropriate posts are happening.
@mguhlin @SandyKendell is Quoto app or instance?