Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
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Mastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediverse
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So is this new option for official mastodon client, on moshidon there is an option "post about this" where you have your own post and different post kinda embedded to your post, now not sure if they are the same options or not.
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That was a shockingly long turnaround for these, considering. I've come and gone from Mastodon like three times since this was an argument and at least twice since they said they would do this.
Oh, well. I originally thought this was a bad call, and I did hate the old Twitter snippy bullshit this enabled, but Bluesky sorta proved to me this was a cultural issue more than a feature set issue. And while we're at it, while I don't particularly like the implementation of Bluesky's custom subject feeds I'm fairly convinced that some alternative to chronological-only feeds would be beneficial. This seems like too little, too late, honestly.
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I like Bluesky and I'm currently on hiatus from Mastodon, but when you say "too little, too late" it may be that Bluesky beat them there, but at the end of the day Bluesky is still Big Tech bullshit. It is a matter of when, not if, it will be enshittified and we need a replacement.
Bluesky is a breath of fresh air and I like the community and features there. And twenty years ago Google was the awesome upstart punching Microsoft in the balls, and yet here we are today.
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Not really related to the bulk of your comment but I'm curious (if you don't mind sharing) what features you like from BlueSky, in comparison to Mastodon?
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Well, I'm still waiting for Twitter to "need a replacement". It seems to be doing just about fine on its new normal. Ditto for any of the other Meta places, which have only consistently grown over time. Yes, Facebook, too.
To be clear, I don't particularly mean too little, too late for me. I'm not on Twitter or Facebook or any of those platforms, Bluesky and Fedi aside. And again, I was not on board with the Masto quote tweet thing. I did stop using it frequently, but not for that reason.
I mean too little, too late to make an impact of any kind. Masto has been stuck where it is for a while, and so has Bluesky. I don't think either are going back to growing anytime soon, but if either does it probably won't be because Masto added quotes. I'm fairly comfy talking to the same dozen people out here like I'm in a 90s IRC channel, but ultimately it'd be nice if the gross places didn't keep driving the global conversation forever. And on that front... yeah, too little, too late.
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cool. it's always good to have new features that people will make use of.
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This is a pretty big deal for Masto, yeah?
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Yeah, people have been arguing about it for at least the last three years, since the first big twitter migration.
Everyone just kind of ignored that you could screenshot a post and reply to it already.
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I'm quite optimistic that this will do well. The main fear is that quote feature is mostly used for bullying but I think lately Mastodon communities are quite healthy and self correcting for this to not be the case.
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With those privacy options to control who can quote post I am not strongly opposed.
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Misskey and Akkoma have had them for years
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No shit. So late to the party :(
Glad they're finally getting to it. I guess I shouldn't be too harsh, apparently progress is slow on it, by still.
The slowness is a feature not a bug though. This is a very powerful feature and an important discussion for the community.