vaguely recall reading a thing some weeks ago that was like... "the backlash against quote toots is a reflection of fedi's whiteness. they aren't only used for harassment; they're integral to black twitter"
and i'm like ok go on
the first example it gave was "for example to reply to someone with an older incongruous tweet of theirs and ask 'this you?'"
idk man. i don't think "it's a popular go-to format for being a snide dick" is making a great case. that kind of just sounds like harassment actually
@eevee So AIUI, there's kind of important cultural context to this, in that it's a 'digitized' version of an older cultural tradition/pattern (for lack of a better word): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dozens_(game)
I'm still not entirely sure how to feel about that, but it *does* presumably change how people experience this interaction pattern themselves.
@eevee Ah, we're probably thinking of different cases then
@joepie91 i don't think this is that; it was framed as like, accountability