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@Pineywoozle @lorenzlm @jeffjarvis @vowe
Couple of things. Much of my discourse is in the context of people saying that marginalized communities could replicate their communities here on Mastodon. Given that context, I don't think that this is the case because the affordances of twitter that enabled Black Twitter to come into being do not exist on Mastodon in a robust sense.
As for your solution, screenshotting + hashtag has a very different cultural function in black digital practice.
@Pineywoozle @lorenzlm @jeffjarvis @vowe
Again, for @vowe specifically, I'm using "black digital practice" to describe how black users make their identities present using the available tools of a platform and, in doing so, come together in a community based on how offline cultural practices translate online through the tools of the platform.
Here, the screenshot + hashtag has been taken up in a specific way by black users to avoid certain kinds of interactions.
@Pineywoozle @lorenzlm @jeffjarvis @vowe A QT, enables call and response and INVITES the response through the very mechanisms that many of you describe. Insofar as the QT actually pulls the other user into the conversation or adds something new to it, the QT invites a participatory exchange that the screenshot + hashtag does not.
This is how the QT enables the call and response I've been talking about in a ways that your proposal does not, and which mastodon was not designed for.
@Pineywoozle @lorenzlm @jeffjarvis @vowe To the final point, that my analysis is at odds with the functionality of mastodon: that's kind of the point. The ongoing claim by mastodonians and pretty much everyone else invested in the site is that the communities we had on Twitter could find new homes here on Mastodon. This is not the case.
Indeed, most of my analysis is not aimed at saying mastodon is "bad," merely that Mastodon does not support the kinds of communities formed on twitter.
@Pineywoozle @lorenzlm @jeffjarvis @vowe And, by extension, it represents a certain lacunae among mastodonians and their proponents when they argue that this is not the case, or that people should reform their communities in ways that align with the "standards" of the platform rather than allowing for organic use of the platform in line with their digital cultural practices.
This is something that mastodonians will have to get over if they want their space to be more open.