Debbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦Aug 4, 2023

Once again I see people talking about how Mastodon needs quote posts and full text search “right now" but is "opposed." Both features are on the road map (https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap) at the highest priority.

The actual problem is resources (money and/or qualified volunteers), which no one seems to talk about. People talk about Mastodon like it's equivalent to companies with billions in VC money, like the only barrier to implementing features is the desire to do so. The barrier is staffing.

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Show threadDan ShickAug 5, 2023
@dgoldsmith perhaps worth noting that other fediverse software already has quote-posts and text search.
Show threadDebbie Goldsmith 🏳️‍⚧️♾️🇺🇦Aug 5, 2023

@datn None of them implement the features with user protections. They're just rendering an embedded post link as a quote post.

Here is what's wanted to build it into Mastodon:
1. Required: Notify the original poster that they've been QP’d (as with mentions). This doesn't happen with current implementations, and requires changes to ActivityPub.
2. Desired: Allow people to block QP'ing of individual posts or all posts (already desired for replies). Also not available in current implementations.

Show threadderSammlerAug 7, 2023
@dgoldsmith @datn I'd say 2. should also be required, not just desired. Otherwise, people would no longer be in control of their own posts or the discussion(s) around. The first thing I will do when that feature ever comes to Mastodon is to disallow quoting for any of my posts. I just don't want that.
Show threadDan Shick
@derSammler @dgoldsmith https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/5624/fep-5624.md
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Aug 7, 2023 at 4:08pmWeb