Mission to Europa

@hildabast@mastodon.online it might be hard to quantify, but it always appeared to me that QT carried a different weight in Twitter's algorithm compared to a Reply as far as displaying on your follower's timelines. At least my own experience was to see the accts I followed QTs far more than their replies (which were sometimes never on the main timeline). This seems to be different here in Mastodon which has less aggressive curation algorithm of the Home feed?

@hildabast@mastodon.online And I do feel that it wasn't it's primary use, but often if you are dealing with a "bigger" account in a debate in the replies, that big accounts are more likely to QT to get attention to their arguments that weren't getting in their individual replies. The person with a smaller account has no such recourse to "call for backup" given the audience size difference. Is that wrong? I'm not sure but it kinda sucks that some have "can escape a debate" privileges