Mastodon MigrationJul 25, 2023

Screenshot Quote Posting

By now you may have heard about the change eliminating the frustrating 16:9 cropping of posts in feeds (https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/110774797138668211).

One of the biggest implications of this change is that you can now quote post simply by attaching a screenshot of the original post. You can be confident that the quote post image will properly display everywhere and not cut off on the left, right, top or bottom.

Whatever you think about #QuotePosting, this is something we can now do.

Show threadEwan Jul 25, 2023
@mastodonmigration or you can have proper quote posts like with Firefish?

not meaning to be rude there I’m just confused
Show threadMastodon MigrationJul 25, 2023
@Ewan Right. Suspect that will be here soon. The point of this post is to let people know that there is a perhaps imperfect way to accomplish it now. One of the things that is actually maybe "better" about screenshot quote posts is that it is a snapshot at a moment in time. If the author subsequently edits the post, you still have the content you were commenting on. This is one of the potential problems with normal quote posting.
Show threadEwan 
@mastodonmigration true, I guess.

And yeah it’s planned for Mastodon to get it with MAS-48.
Jul 25, 2023 at 4:41pmWeb