@Gargron

Ааа, так вот почему на Мастодонте нельзя цитировать. Чтобы если уж сраться, так хоть не за глаза.

@Gargron do you plan to revisit this?

For the newbies missing quote-reply: the lack of such a function is in fact a deliberate design feature of Mastodon.

#Newbies #MastoTips #QuoteReply

@Gargron I think that's a great idea.

@Gargron

Boosting seems very friendly

@Gargron How about gifs, though? I always got a kick out of gif responses.

@Gargron Flawless logic. 🫡

@Gargron Think about an expert, maybe a medical doctor who writes about the results of a study she made.
You know, she has no interest on getting my opinion on that (a reply) as I have nothing to contribute here. It would just be spam to her.
BUT I would like to discuss her results with my audience -> Perfectly valid use case for quoted toots.

You shouldn't take this feature from as just because it also can be used for no good.

@Gargron Thanks for the tip.

@Gargron this makes sense to me and I appreciate the thought behind it.

Related though, as a new user I find myself wishing that boosting was more like Reddit "upvotes" than Twitter "retweets."

Is there a way to separate people's "real" posts from the posts they've boosted?

@Gargron I guess you can still link to toots if you really want to. A bit of friction in that process isn't a bad thing.

@Gargron I don't agree with you 100% but I totally get where you're coming from.

@Gargron I think a nice compromise would be giving individual users the ability to opt in or opt out of functionality like quote tweets or allowing their posts to be findable by search. Another option would be allowing users to quote their own tweets so we can link related posts visually

@Gargron
Thank-you. This is one of the many subtle design differences that is making my first week here a welcoming experience. Good job.

@Gargron this is a great choice imho. Quote tweeting is like loudly talking trash about someone at a bar right behind their back.

@Gargron I hear what you're saying. On Twitter I often found the quote function valuable in using the original post as a jumping off point for a new conversation or to steer the conversation in a different direction without doing so on someone else's TL. Does that make sense?

@Gargron I think a “preview” effect for links would be beneficial though, as it would save people some clicks. They could see if they’d already read a shared article, for example.

But I appreciate the lack of QTs.

@Gargron please do NOT reconsider this stance from four years ago just because of the Twitter implosion.

This subtle yet hugely consequential difference is one of the lessons that should be learned from Big Socials' destructive, vacuous decisions.

If people want to gossip, they can screenshot, etc. - make them do the work, a second to reconsider. Please don't let that behavior infest the entire pool.

#twittermigration #twitterexodus #twitterexit #fediverse #quotetweet #quotedpostsonmastodon

@Gargron so we have to run a fork is what you're saying.

@Gargron Good for you! Mastodon: the ethical choice.👍🏼🙂