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.

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@mastodonmigration Honestly, this is such a clumsy workaround to a missing feature that other ActivityPub implementations like #Akkoma & #Firefish have had for a while.

I know it's an upcoming feature for #Mastodon but honestly this shouldn't have required a workaround to do the same thing from the get go...

Good to see that at least the workaround works better now that it doesn't force 16:9 on images.

Jul 25, 2023 at 4:49pmWeb
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@deltatux See above comment. Not to take anything away from those wonderful apps, but it is one thing to develop and deploy features for apps that have a several thousand users, and another entirely when you have millions of users. The requirement to test test test and to imagine worst case scenarios for exploitation and malicious use cases is mind bending. Big props to the developers and testers of mainstream apps. Very difficult to get these things right.