People wanting QTs for "good" reasons, so they can add a comment to what they're boosting, just haven't learned how we've been doing it here all along, without the need for a QT function.
How it works:
1) Reply to the post you want to QT with a comment, such as "Boosting so my followers can also respond to this!" My opinion is ..."
2) Boost your REPLY. Your followers will see it in their timeline. When they click on it they'll see the OP above your reply.
Done! 🙂
Comments about not wanting to clutter the OP's thread with a side-discussion or tangent are making a good point!
What we do on Mastodon in these cases is we boost their post, then immediately make a new post of our own starting with "LB:" meaning we are referring to our last boost. It's a little more effort for your followers to scroll up to your last boost, but that's one way to handle this.
Sorry I didn't have space in my OP to mention that!
I should also mention another thing we can do if things start going off on a side tangent in someone's thread, is remove their name from any additional posts we make in that side-thread so they stop getting notifications of OT posts.
All these things may be a little more effort, but I think it's worth these work-arounds to avoid potentional QT toxicity, until we may come up with something that works even better than QTs in future releases.
I think I like this method! Thanks for pointing this out as an option! 😎
(Boosting the above thread for my followers.😉)
@leadore I think the biggest problem with that (and one of the things that led to the development of QT vs just “LRT…”) is that separating the post from the context gets a little sticky in places, especially once your “LB:” post gets boosted by someone else which means the context gets further separated and harder to track down if you have a posting spree
To keep the context, you could screenshot, but that breaks all the post/user security so eww no, or include a link to the original
@emery @winnie @leadore For lack of a better analogy... low-friction interaction is my equivalent to alt text on images.
And I don't expect the fediverse to cater to me, just as some people don't do alt text for their own disability or mental health reasons. That's fair! But the higher friction caused by the lack of easy QRT tools is a thing that reminds me repeatedly that the local space isn't designed for people like /me/, deliberately or otherwise.
@leadore whenever you do an LB, please, *please* link back to the referenced post
because if your LB shows up on our home column, but the boost doesn't (either because someone else boosted it recently, or because our instance blocks the instance it's from), it's really confusing and disorienting
-F
@leadore since quotes aren't arriving any time soon, this handy technique gets the job done in the interim.
Yes, you the reader have to click (once) to see what on earth I'm talking about, but once you do, you get to see the post, its thread and surrounding context.
It works for me!
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