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Eugen Rochko

I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.

Eugen Rochko

If we did do it we'd like to make it something you can opt out of, in a similar way to how we plan to allow disabling replies. It's not entirely trivial.

stux⚡

@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

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PTEC3D

@stux @Gargron
I know, I'm not really a definitive voice yet but I think I prefer no QT. Sometimes I wish I could, but then I think "Well, I can always copy the salient parts and re-toot them" and then it hits me: I am going to COPY someone else's stuff. . .

Nico :pensive_party_blob:

@stux @Gargron I’m a QT addict on Twitter please god not here

Marco Smit

@stux @Gargron
Twitter has been so successful because it has a lot of popular features. for Mastodon to grow, it needs to adapt some of these features. This network needs to improve drastically to be suitable for the masses - which I suppose is the goal.

mirabilos

@Gargron @stux uhm just take the patches from @ariadne who implemented this, so you stay compatible

Adam Dalliance

@stux @Gargron
Yes. Someone was say saying that one project's quote-boost attaches the boost-post as a reply to the original as well as a new thread for the poster's followers.

That sounded good, adding the quote-boosts as replies too.

Andrew

@stux @Gargron I think that's an argument for supporting a QT. Otherwise people just screenshot the post without attribution or a convenient way back to the original post.

Luís Gonçalves

@stux @Gargron It should be more like a "boost with context". You would still comment on the original thread, boost your comment and it would attach the OP as context.

Dee Toher

@stux @Gargron I think a priority would be to sort out editing of posts to allow for the addition of alt text, without having to delete and re-upload the image(s). Probably a lesser challenge. The Quote Post one is likely to be a bit of a minefield (that I do not envy you having to enter).

Father Roderick

@stux @Gargron some kind of opt-out/opt-in setting per post would be useful. And the ability to change that setting after posting when others abuse a QT to attack or harass?

John Samuel

@stux @Gargron Now I fear that Mastodon is becoming like the birdsite. Not able to see the so-called "metrics" (number of views/boosts/replies/favorites) on the home timeline and no quote posts are what made Mastodon experience special (at least for me). Unfortunately, copying features including "quote posts"from there will make it like the birdsite. I guess that I will opt-out as soon as this feature is released.

Jo (she/they)

@jsamwrites@mastodon.social @stux@mstdn.social @Gargron@mastodon.social QTs are already available server-side right across the #fediverse, it's the #Mastodon API that is the outlier.

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