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Jeff Jarvis

I'm going to QT something about the necessity of QTs for community formation. I asked an expert in Black Twitter who's not yet here whether there would be a Black Mastodon and she said likely no because Mastodon lacks the affordances that made Black Twitter possible. Here, @shengokai affords us an excellent explanation of the importance of those affordances, starting with the Quote Tweet.
h/t/ @lorenzlm zirk.us/@shengokai/10934699197

zirkusDr. Johnathan Flowers (@shengokai@zirk.us)I'm converting my mastodon critiques into a word document that I will likely use to post mastodon local versions of those large threads about mastodon that I've made on twitter. Having said that, I'm not really "anti-mastodon," as much as I am trying to point out that the fediverse does not have the tools to support the ways that marginalized groups built community on the bird site. And it really comes down to affordances of the platforms.