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My biggest problem with Mastodon is so many people don't use hashtags, and I can't "quote tweet" to add them. -- nm

Posted by mara 🍂 (aka mara) Aug 1 '23, 06:11

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There's a feature coming soon to make hashtags a little bit more like Tumblr. That might resolve this issue. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 07:49
Can you reply to the poster and ask them to add hashtags? Boost+quote would be a great addition, though. -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 07:19 7
- They intentionally don’t allow quotes because it’s an easy way to gang up on the original poster. -- nm - spamlet Aug 1, 07:20 6
  - For now. It's on the roadmap to resolve this; there's been a lot of pressure from certain groups that benefit from that conversation style. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 07:51 2
    - Meaning trolls and people that lead online brigades? -- nm - spamlet Aug 1, 07:58 1
      - No. Black people whose culture is to use that pattern in their day to day (offline) conversation. -- nm - Beryllium Aug 1, 09:22
  - huh interesting. I didn't know that -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 07:45 2
    - "huh interesting. I didn't know that" - dumbass -- nm - Beaker 🍺 Aug 1, 07:48 1
      - heh (but do posters actually see the reposts?) -- nm - JaxSean Aug 1, 07:51
Hashtags are a tool of The Man. :P -- nm - Bari Seldon Aug 1, 07:03

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