Post #2469341

2025-06-05 19:55 UTC

we're honestly against quote-posts as a feature yes, we remember how on twitter they were often used to hold power accountable they were also often used to harm people. that was, perhaps, their primary use. please notice how "power" is not here on the fediverse in the first place

Replies (5)

@BoydStephenSmithJr@hachyderm.io 2025-06-05 20:13

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I think the "abusers" of quote-posts will just screenshot-and-attach. So, I think not implementing the feature is actually punishing the people that will user it well. But, I'm also not a Mastodon developer, and I'm a big fan of worker decision and autonomy. So, I'll leave it up to them.

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@jrose@social.belkadan.com 2025-06-05 20:05

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I still don’t really see a consistent rule to separate quote-posts from rich previews of any other kind of content, and of course posts get screenshotted plenty already… But maybe this is another “don’t make it too easy” thing.

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@Catfish_Man@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 20:34

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space the thing I dislike about the *current* quote post implementation (that is: a URL) is that it doesn’t notify the person that they are now on the receiving end of more attention. Invisible quote posts are imo worse than quote posts, and that’s what you have now.

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@ShadSterling@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 22:04

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I’ve only seen a few things saying Mastodon is adding the feature, and the thing I’m wondering about is how are the new quote-posts different from the pseudo-quote-posts we have now? I don’t want to encourage pile-ons, but I (pseudo-)quote post quite a bit to share my thoughts inspired by some other post and keep the context without either hijacking their thread or failing to share my thoughts with my followers; is there a better way to do that?

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@cks@mastodon.social 2025-06-05 22:20

@ireneista@adhd.irenes.space I have mixed feelings but part of my mixed feelings is that clients are implementing it on their own, in that I think an increasing number of them will inline a Fediverse link if the author put it in a toot. If something q-p like is going to happen anyway, maybe doing it as an official feature will make it easier for people to turn off for their posts or otherwise limit it. (People can still do the manual one but I feel that affordances matter & create social pressure.)

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