Screenshotting this post 👇🏻 in order to quote post it! I don’t know where people get the idea that quote posting = dunks, personally I feel that that opinion is just Twitter brain.
Every major social platform from Tumblr, to Facebook, to LinkedIn and more has the ability to natively quote post. This is because the primary use of such a feature is to amplify information w added context or to open a new line of discussion. Replies are used far more often for harassment but we don’t ban replies!
Personally, I’d like to have quote posts as an option. I think it would be crucial to allow people to opt out of the feature, but I do think quote posts could allow for a lot of really great and thoughtful, nuanced convos on here that are currently too hard to have in the comments (and the way things are now replies are closer to a comment section). I really love Mastodon, but it would be great to see the platform experiment more (again, while giving ppl the easy and clear option of opting out!)
@taylorlorenz can you describe what exactly makes a “quote post” for you? There’s a tiny bit of friction associated with tooting a link to another toot, but it’s not difficult. Given that you’re willing to go to the trouble of screenshotting, why not just post a link, as you might post a link to anything else? Many clients and some servers will unfurl a link preview and embed the toot already, and as others have pointed out, UX improvements like a native button for doing this are already planned
@glyph @taylorlorenz one click distance to reading the original content. Not only unnecessary, but easy to skip when undecided if what to read. This is not the intention when willing to quote post. This particular problem is solved with the screenshot
