So, I'm a state of deep and increasing skepticism about the Threads integration, but I'm leaving the channel open for awhile to make a slow and considered decision about the impact. So far I have a lot of ambiguous thoughts but this post is about the reappearance via threads of the toxic Twitter behavior known as the "quote tweet dunk" and especially the QTD RT, where someone flexes their own QTD on some mook via a boost/RT. It's shitty and I'm blocking the people who do it.
Quote tweet dunking is punk ass behavior. Yes I used to do it in the heyday of the fiery Twitter discourse when no holds were barred but this place has been better than that. Even people in my TL using apps that allow quote posts haven't been using them for dunk flexes. Seeing it come back has been startling and gross.
I don't give a fuck who you're dunking on or how dumb they are. MTG, Elon, Kanye, it doesn't matter. It sucks and I'm bummed to see it here. Toxic, ego driven behavior
@mrcompletely I’ve done it in the past on Twitter when Twitter was Twitter.
As ever, I’m attempting to be a better me so I will only be QTD’ing myself.
@mrcompletely Yeah I did a lot of that on Twitter, and I think one of the things different here is we can’t dunk on a famous jerk and be part of a crowd of tens of thousands also dunking on (and punching up at) that jerk, which the jerk might actually perceive. Here the famous jerk won’t perceive anything, maybe at most a further impulse to stay on threads or whatever. While the rest of us get the jerk’s message boosted into our feeds.
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