Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
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Mastodon is improving profiles and getting ready for quote posts
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This is fantastic. I REALLY hope you can set a control on a post that allows quoting to be disabled or only allowed by people you follow. A great step in the right direction.
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That is the plan, you can see more in our previous blog post.
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This is how it works on BlueSky. And you can detach your original post from someone else's quote post of it after-the-fact.
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This would be a really neat feature and would allow for the best of both worlds so to speak.
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For my understanding, what is the difference between a quote post and a post that contains a link to another post?
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With a quote post, the post you are quoting is fully (text, avatar image) nested in your post.
It was commonly used on Twitter (I deleted my accounts some time ago).
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Whatever keeps us all tooting is good in my book. Enjoying the services and keep up the great work.
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Wow, took them so long to get quote posts. A welcome addition imo (I know there's a lot of controversy around implementing it, but for me, I think I prefer it).
The plan is to fully implement this by Mastodon 4.5 later in the year.
@mintiefresh @AlphaneMoon whats the controversy surround it? im not aware of any
To my understanding (please take with several grains of salt), some folks felt like it would encourage toxicity since you can essentially mock something someone said without saying it to them directly, while sending your audience to the original post, and I believe for quite some time the plan was intentionally not to add it
On the other hand, I've heard folks suggest that by allowing people to have their own isolated conversation about an idea you can potentially limit some of the harmful consequences of people with large audiences or something, but I don't remember the exact explanation
Personally I'm happy to get quote posts and I'm happy that mastodon is cautious about implementing features that facilitate hostile interactions in the way that major platforms do for engagement
Hopefully someone can chime in with a more informed/detailed explanation, but I thought I'd share what I know in case I'm the only one to reply :)
It encourages dog-piling essentially
Oh, my understanding is that originally they didn't want quote posts because it could lead to a culture of people dunking on each other and a lot of negativity.
So I believe there was a lot of resistance early on against that feature. That's just what I've seen people saying whenever this feature was requested over the past few years. I could be wrong though.
No idea, I do use Mastodon relatively regularly, but I am not on top of development discussions.
This was news for me so I decided to share. :)