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"
Max Riethmuller (TechLife)@steven @jayrosen_nyu @anildash I agree with this, the argument here on Mastodon seems to be that QT is used as a way to bully or make fun of people rather than directly engage. But that's definitely not the way I use QT
Stefano Pacifico 🧬 🇺🇦@techlife @steven @jayrosen_nyu @anildash I still can’t figure out what actual grounding that argument has.
T.J. CrowderI think the core of it is here and in the linked blog post by the original author of Mastodon:
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/309#issuecomment-469260847
@tjcrowdertech thanks TJ, this is helpful!
I just remain agnostic to whether this is just a subjective hypothesis vs a provable phenomenon (the one by which quoting content is a net negative). While I respect the opinion and more importantly the hard work behind it, and also understand “better safe than sorry”, I still think the UX is worse without it and it’s a barrier to adoption.