Mastodawn

#Meta note on #Mastodon - why can I not "quote post" something unless I'm following the account but can just copy/paste the link to it in a new post? I don't understand why the difference is meaningful

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FinchHaven sfba Mar 13

@davetron5000

Exactly, and link-pasting is exactly what I've done ever since I got on #Mastodon

#QuotePosting was an enormous #MoralPanic about four years ago because #Twitter had it and #Mastodon didn't and all the big techy-bro rags convinced #Gargron that he was discouraging new migrants from Twitter because Mastodon didn't have #QuotePosts

Took 'em about three years to do it, and everyone pretty much ignored quote posts when they were finally implemented, a lot because people could opt-out if they wanted and no one took them seriously

IMO, YMMV...

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Dave Copeland

@FinchHaven Yeah, I vaguely followed that but didn't understand it, really, because you can just post a link to a toot in a toot. Ivory detected that and make it look like a quote post, so that seemed to solve the "problem", though not sure why mastodon had to do anything to implement it?