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

Can you reply to the poster and ask them to add hashtags? Boost+quote would be a great addition, though. -- nm

Posted by JaxSean (aka JaxSean) Aug 1 '23, 07:19

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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

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