Anil@taylorlorenz the link previews thing is complicated because retrieving the data for them is decentralized, meaning each instance (and sometimes, each *app*!) is hitting the website for the preview info. It’s often been omitted because it can knock small websites offline just dealing with serving previews when a popular user shares a link.
Jay Rosen@anildash I agree with Taylor about quote posts. Basic tool of press criticism for me.
Steven L. Johnson@jayrosen_nyu @anildash As a non-press user, I find QT useful to contextualize content I want to amplify in a way that it is appealing to my followers. I don't know of any simple way to accomplish that for "Toots"
Alan Sill@steven @jayrosen_nyu @anildash Just quote it and attribute it as you would when writing an article. The longer space available by default in most Mastodon servers makes this easier to do by default. Quote tweets were a rampant source of dogpiling and abuse on the bird site. Behave more normally here please.