Gwen Snyder is uncivilApr 10, 2023

I know I'm a broken record on this, but I so wish Mastodon had a simple mechanism similar to quote-retweeting.

For me a lot of the fun of Twitter is using someone else's thought as a jumping point for starting a conversation with mutuals/followers.

Direct-replying is great if you want to join a conversation in someone else's community, but that's not always what I want to do.

Show threadSarahApr 10, 2023
@gwensnyder quote posting do exist in some apps. I’m sure Ice Cubes and this essentially how it’s done
Show threadToni Widmo
@SarahOestreich @gwensnyder I use a Calckey instance, which can also do them. They look like this:
Apr 11, 2023 at 12:29pmWeb
Show threadSarahApr 11, 2023
@toni @gwensnyder yeah that’s the thing, quote boosting exists in a few different instances, in a few different apps. One of the things holding the Fediverse back I think is the lack of a robust search feature, but if there’s something else one wants, one can probably find somewhere with the capability
Show threadToni WidmoApr 12, 2023
@SarahOestreich @gwensnyder I guess the search app would need access to all instances, and any instance could defederate from the search instance? So it could only search participating instances.