Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
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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.
It's a good way to be pedantic on social media.
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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.
Yeah, but how effective is it really?
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(This is an example.)
Get a load of this idiot! They can't imagine how quoting someone can be bullying!
The quote isnt bullying at all. Its your own post using words like idiot ect. Thats bullying.
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The quote isnt bullying at all. Its your own post using words like idiot ect. Thats bullying.
You have to think of it from a micro blogging perspective. Imagine I have a ton of followers and have created a culture of them attacking anyone I attack. It makes more sense how it is bullying in that context.
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Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot?
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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.
Wow, stop being so controversial
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Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot?
Nothing, but the effort might be one the driving forces of how one uses social media. And thus how it's communities begin to operate and feel.
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You have to think of it from a micro blogging perspective. Imagine I have a ton of followers and have created a culture of them attacking anyone I attack. It makes more sense how it is bullying in that context.
Again, it's the attacking which is the simple role breaking and it's regardless of how. Good god talk about over analysis
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I'm shocked people are actually against Mastodon adding a common feature. Seems like one of the gripes with it for ages has been the lack of features and polish (I personally stopped using Mastodon in part because of this)
Glad they are going ahead with it...it doesn't really hurt anything and isn't any different than just screenshotting posts.
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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.
X does it more like the second one, but there’s nothing stopping mastodon from doing it like the first.
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I'm shocked people are actually against Mastodon adding a common feature. Seems like one of the gripes with it for ages has been the lack of features and polish (I personally stopped using Mastodon in part because of this)
Glad they are going ahead with it...it doesn't really hurt anything and isn't any different than just screenshotting posts.
you can just translate the app though?
sorry, had to
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It was part of what made the platform shitty...
As others have already pointed out, you can literally get the same result by using images as quotes. People could've been shitty even without the quotation feature because it's not the feature on the platform that makes it shitty, it's the people on the platform who decide to use it for a shitty purpose.
Not implementing a feature because morons may abuse it is not justification for not implementing a feature. It's like saying we shouldn't be able to reply to comments because someone might use that feature to directly send you hateful comments. Now, if the features primary purpose is (or primary use case ends up being) to use it negatively, then sure it shouldn't be implemented. But I don't see how quotation falls under this exception. In my eyes quotation is a net positive.
It doesn't turn the platform shitty and if there are good moderators it also prevents assholes from trying to turn the platform shitty.
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Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot?
That could make possible the repost on Lemmy and that's a big deal!
Today to repost, you boost and you can't add anything else to the original toot like the mention of a lemmy community to allow fediversion of the content. This new feature might make it possible. I can't wait! -
Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot?
what’s stopping me from just screenshoting
Images of text?
Accessibility.So, another sacrifice at the altar of social media to offer a deliberately broken feature at the expense of people who need accessibility.
- ableism +1
- accessibility 0
Social media can be such trash.
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what’s stopping me from just screenshoting
Images of text?
Accessibility.So, another sacrifice at the altar of social media to offer a deliberately broken feature at the expense of people who need accessibility.
- ableism +1
- accessibility 0
Social media can be such trash.
Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.
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Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.
Possible, unlikely, worse.
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Other fediverse platforms have had it for awhile. Not sure why so many feel so stuck with Mastodon. There are alternatives.
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Finally, I can make the meme "Who private quote retooted me?"!!!
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If I infer from context clues, quote dunking is commenting disparagingly to frame the quoted tweet? I left Twitter in like 2011.
Quote dunking is "dunking" on people who are wrong, or have bad opinions through quote posts.
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