Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
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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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X does it more like the second one, but there’s nothing stopping mastodon from doing it like the first.
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you can just translate the app though?
sorry, had to
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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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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! -
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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Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.
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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?"!!!
