Cory Doctorow on Nostr: Reposting with a comment? Even better - you're telling people *why* to pay attention ...
Reposting with a comment? Even better - you're telling people *why* to pay attention to that thing, or, more importantly, why they can safely ignore it if it's not their thing (what Bruce Sterling memorably calls an "attention conservation notice"). This is why Mastodon's decision not to implement quote-tweeting (over a misplaced squeamishness about "dunk culture") was such a catastrophic own-goal.
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