the roamerNov 12

Quotes, she cried, always those blasted Quotes. We don't need no Quotes.

Our Lady Joan Mastodon could be quite direct in her missives when the moment was right. We loved her for it. A quiet murmur of approval spread through the camp.

The lights of thousands of phones shone in the dark as her knights tooted jestpost after jestpost, warding off the swarm of invading Quotes. We knew that Quotes will evaporate when faced with laughter.

Sir Alfred, never a man of many words, stood up and started playing the Tooters' Song on his bagpipe. We all joined in, singing the half-forgotten song as well as we could. Our Lady Joan smiled. My knights are fine fighters, she said, straight tooting will prevail.

The jestposting continued all through the night.

#JoanMastodon #noQuotes #JestPosting

the roamerSep 12, 2025

And when morning came her knights showed her the QUOTES that covered the fields, huge white blocks that blocked the view. And they told her the QUOTES were rooted deep in the ground and they could not be removed. And our Lady Joan Mastodon wept for three days and three nights. Then she rose and stood in front of her knights and spoke thus: We shall not quote, she said to them. We shall reply and we shall boost, but we shall not quote. We will pass by the QUOTES that cover our fields, we will plant trees around them, we will toot freely to each other as we always did, in direct exchange between one free tooter and another, never blocking the other's voice. Having spoken thus, she rode away. And as she passed the first of the QUOTES, her knights heard her laughing, a free, roaring laughter. That is our Lady Joan, they said to each other. Let us toot as she asked us to. Let us plant trees around the QUOTES.

#noQuotes #MastodonCulture #JoanMastodon #IAndTHou

Show threadthe roamerAug 22, 2025

@TheEddieShow

"We shall fight Quotes on the beaches, we shall fight them on the landing grounds, we shall fight them in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight them on the hills, we shall never surrender ... "

That's what our Lady Joan Mastodon called us to do in her great speech before the Battle of the Hashtags. She was, as ever, right.

QTs break the dialogical principle that gives the pulse of true life to the Fediverse. We want to talk to the other, not talk about them.

#noQuotes #noQT #MartinBuber #IAndThou #JoanMastodon #MastodonCulture

erikFeb 1, 2024

Frida Kahlo, Mecha warrior.

#generativeAI #AiArt #NoQuotes #StableDiffusion #SDXL #FridaKahlo

Show threadhackbyte Antifa (friendica) 13HB1Aug 27, 2023

@mrcompletely @prachisrivas @renchap I can not agree to be honest.

As long as you not specifically post something in a private context, it is - like a nft - visible for everyone and one does not have any control over the point if somebody quotes it, copies it and pastes it as a quote .. or just takes a screenshot and then publish that. (Which in the latter case is actually killing any and all accessibility for blind ppl for example.).

So ... including a flag in a protocol that ones post should not be quoted, just creates a false sense of security about something we in fact have no technical control _at all_.

It's as if you just include "#NoQuotes" in your post and rely on users to respect that.

Hhhmm............