@Gargron I wish you wisdom. I do personally not miss the functionality and am, after eight weeks of tooting, quite convinced that your arguments for not implementing it are as valid now as they were then and increase the value of the platform. Just my two cents, mind.

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This should be opt-IN, not opt-OUT.

@Gargron
I'm against it. But if you do it please consider these controls:

1) users must be able to disallow quoting on all their posts or on a per-post basis.

2) If someone quote-toots you, you must get a notification of it, and

3) If it's abusive or you don't like what they did with your post, you can opt to "block" the quote, meaning: the quote no longer appears in their post, and their post is no longer linked to you or your post; your post can no longer be reached from there.

@gargron There is clearly also a lot of demand to *not* implement something like that.

#QuotePosts

@Gargron I think that makes a ton of sense.

@Gargron It's also a question if it will be allowed for all kinds of posts or only for the "very public" ones with the globe symbol. The question is if posting "only for followers" will indeed stay only inside your followers. It's indeed much more complex than on T.

@Gargron I prefer the ‘opt in’ alternative. Let those who want it get it, don’t force those who don’t want it to get rid of it.

@Gargron Just a suggestion: An opt out/in setting not just with "allow/disallow" but with the values "allow all users, only allow followed users, only allow mentioned users, disallow all users" as an account setting with the option to change it per toot.

@Gargron It'll always be possible to use a permalink to a toot...

@Gargron please consider this approach which could solve many of the cons of this feature: https://mastodon.social/@bigzaphod/109508480570261961

@Gargron This is the right thing to do. Add the feature and allow users to disable if they so desire ✅ 👍

@Gargron @dynamic Please add: 1) Ability to filter out quote-boosts from others; and 2) Ability for entire instances to enable/disable and QB-filter at the server level.

@Gargron His can you opt out of it? That doesn't makes sense given that you can just link it as a workaround.

@Gargron I'd like to have an opt out feature on a global level, i.e., on all of my toots and not just individually. I personally don't want QTs, and if we have to have that feature, users at least can opt out of it completely with one click.

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Before that, can we have consistency on link previews?

https://androiddev.social/@krysanify/109595306068586969

@Gargron the opt-out choice is a good way to handle it.

@Gargron

Is this something, that should work via #ActivityPub?

@Gargron But please.. please.. not like Twitter does.

It seems so bad that if other people take the content of the original poster and gets more reach with that without some 'credit' or something..

On Twitter it was always the 'famous' people who ripped the tweets of others and got popular with it.. That seems so wrong

@Gargron This sounds like a good compromise. I'd like to have a quote function. Then I can explain, why I boost something and it's helpful for people who follow me to engage with me as well.

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I do believe that the absence of quote-tweets is something that really makes a conversation healthier here. I still remember Twitter introducing quote-tweets and it starting slam-dunks from all sides of the spectrum.