somewhat suspect it's a big driver of the discourse being so bad - it disincentivizes any sort of effort to find and share good content by making it look like you're doing nothing
truuu gotta quotepost w some clever or at least not awful comment so you get to see the likes... but then it divides the replies between the OP and your new quote thread... sigh
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Reply · Apr 19, 2023aww, but skooks said it was good... what do ppl post abt? if there's good tech content it still might be worth itReply · Apr 23, 2026@PaulaSeeksTruth eh there's a distribution, a few posts are very good but it often feels like "this 2K word post could have been a tweet"Reply · May 31, 2023hehe I do wish it at least showed that there IS a quoted post so it's less confusing than reading it and thinking it's a subtweetReply · Jul 19, 2023better feed algos don't incentivize it as much anymore, thank cthulhu