=> gemini://gemini.circumlunar.space/users/left_adjoint/retweets.gmi reply to this post by left_adjoint@circumlunar
I didn't really get active in Twitter. I didn't really do any microblogging until Mastodon came along, in fact, if you look at
=> https://twitter.com/caseofducks my twitter
you'll see it's just a mirror of
=> https://writing.exchange/@acdw my masto
...
Anyway, all of this is to say that i wasn't aware that retweets *weren't* baked into twitter from the beginning, and i actually agree with left_adjoint that they're probably a bad idea. masto has the 'boost', which is basically the fedi version of the 'retweet', and there have been many times when i wanted to boost someone's toot but *also* comment on the toot itself, which you can't do. it's frustrating!!]
it'd be nice if there were a fedi client that would auto-quote boosts instead of just boosting them, but until then i'm going to try quote-boosting manually from now on.
thanks, left_adjoint!
PS.
=> https://clarissalittler.github.io/2020/07/04/reretweets.html there's an addendum!!!
gemini://gem.acdw.net:1965/raw/2020-07-06-RE_why-retweets-were-a-bad-idea