Authors can remove their post if they’re uncomfortable with the way you’ve quoted them.
So people will continue to attaching screenshots because their whole posts can't be rendered contextless without their input.
Still prevents people from jumping on each other using quote posts the way they did back on twitter. They can already take screenshots, this hasn't been a big problem, and it's certainly not a problem introduced by this update.
What exactly makes it "horrible" in your eyes? What would you have done differently?
It defeats the point of quote posts. Why would I quote someone if they can render my whole post dead by removing the context if they don't like what I said? It effectively makes only "acceptable" positive and praising quote posts to be allowed.
I think people who are not comfortable to be quoted should restrain from public posting in general or quote posting should be instance level flag instead of user toggle to not ruin quote posts for everyone while giving those people an option to opt out.
Take Lemmy or PieFed. Analogous example would be if someone made a comment on a post and then had back and forth with another person. But the person who made the first comment had ability to hide all the other responses in the thread to hide the context of that discussion.
Seems like it'll lead to a situation where the best way to properly quote a post is to do a quote post then thow a screenshot in the comments or the main post if that's a thing you can do on Mastodon. Haven't touched it beyond making an account I've never posted on.
They’d better introduce official iOS app being functional for those without an account.
Good idea, horrible implementation.
So people will continue to attaching screenshots because their whole posts can't be rendered contextless without their input.
Still prevents people from jumping on each other using quote posts the way they did back on twitter. They can already take screenshots, this hasn't been a big problem, and it's certainly not a problem introduced by this update.
What exactly makes it "horrible" in your eyes? What would you have done differently?
It defeats the point of quote posts. Why would I quote someone if they can render my whole post dead by removing the context if they don't like what I said? It effectively makes only "acceptable" positive and praising quote posts to be allowed.
I think people who are not comfortable to be quoted should restrain from public posting in general or quote posting should be instance level flag instead of user toggle to not ruin quote posts for everyone while giving those people an option to opt out.
Take Lemmy or PieFed. Analogous example would be if someone made a comment on a post and then had back and forth with another person. But the person who made the first comment had ability to hide all the other responses in the thread to hide the context of that discussion.
Seems like it'll lead to a situation where the best way to properly quote a post is to do a quote post then thow a screenshot in the comments or the main post if that's a thing you can do on Mastodon. Haven't touched it beyond making an account I've never posted on.