Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
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I'm glad they're adding it; I also hope that they take Bsky's ability to detach yourself from the quoted post too.
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I've never heard the phrase but I'm 10000% positive that's what it means.
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(This is an example.)
Get a load of this idiot! They can't imagine how quoting someone can be bullying!
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It was part of what made the platform shitty...
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Aren't Mastodon instances maintained by volunteers in their spare time? I can't imagine how they manage to continue moderating it once there are ten thousand or millions of users on it. At least the moderators on Twitter were paid. It was their job. I think people massively underestimate how much work this is.
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That's true, but I don't think we'll see that sort of rapid growth on Mastodon. At least not for a while. For now, Bluesky is sucking up most of the users seeking Twitter alternatives. I imagine that the growth will be slow enough that it'll be easy enough for mod teams to scale up to.
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Then we can finally get people to write
Don't subtoot me bro
Is that the controversial part?
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Also mastodon instances not named mastodon.social are still relatively small.
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Most instances will stop allowing new accounts to be created when it reaches a certain size that gets difficult to manage (hardware and moderating-wise). They self-regulate that way, and instances that get out of control will just be defederated by the others.
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They will have that it’s in the article
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Good feature, I don't see any problems.
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Quotes are controversial because Twitter people used it to foster toxicity. However, on Mastodon, we have actually active mods.
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Also, it seems very well implemented, much better than on Twitter: Mastodon says it will allow users to control whether their posts can be quoted. Also, users will be notified if someone quotes them, and they’ll be able to withdraw their post from the quoted context at any time.
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Most importantly, Mastodon has an active developer who responds to feedback, and PULL REQUESTS, ISSUE TRACKERS, AND GITHUB DISCUSSIONS exist!
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If you still completely disagree with this decision, fork the project, create a patch, and start your own server with the patched Mastodon!
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Bluesky has a feature where you can stop someone from quoting your post if you don’t like what they are saying.
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Omg howd you do that without a quote feature remove images from mastodon
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90% of interesting tweets are quote tweets they lead to the twitter version of chainthreads
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I'm curious about how they handle retracting the quote in an open source federated model where the behaviour of other osntances can'tbe ensured. Does the instance hosting the quote simply refuse to honour the quote link?
And I suppose if an instance uses a hostile workaround like simply embedding a copy, that would be seen as a bad mark against the instance which could lead to defederation?
I'm not saying it's impossible, just interested in the specifics.
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As much as I love the Fediverse, it's amazing that Mastodon users see this feature as a threat. By the way, any decent app implemented quoting years ago.
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Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I'm blind but I don't see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.
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It's like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
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Is it just that it links back to the original or what? I mean how is it different from just quoting the post like this:
It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
And then saying something about it?
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It's like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
So like this?
Or like this?
It's like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
