That’s fair. I think we give different meanings to social media (as a society, not just the two of us) and that’s where my reaction comes from.

I wrote about social networks for broadcasting information vs. discussing with friends before, and that’s also why I’m mostly just crossposting things to Mastodon now − I’m uncomfortable with both of these uses, because I’d rather broadcast on my own spaces and discuss in private. But for other uses, I guess this feature isn’t useless.

I must say I don’t remember it being a good thing at all when it came to Twitter, mostly because it encouraged people to quotetweet instead of reply when they didn’t disagree. That meant more visibility for angry takes and actually made things worse pretty often, in my experience at least.