a kilo of saucepans (rakslice)3d ago
Glyph
"you can't have a quote-post or a link preview in the same toot as an image" is a baffling design choice on mastodon, I'm looking at a bunch of stuff on bsky that makes very good use of juxtaposition and like… why can't we juxtapose things. that's like half of language
Apr 2 at 4:10amWeb
Show threadV3d ago
@glyph huh, is that an API limit, or a client one?
Show threadGlyph3d ago
@miss_rodent I click the buttons, I get an error message. beyond that, no clue
Show threadV3d ago
@glyph Fair, I hadn't noticed before, beyond the button going grey for quote posts. Curious now if that's something a client implementation could change somehow, or if it would break server-side even if the client supported it.
Show threadGlyph3d ago
@miss_rodent boosted in the hopes that someone more educated on activitypub can answer
Show threadإمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸3d ago
@glyph Can you at least view such posts when other fedi software does it?

This post has an image and a quote.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/glyph/statuses/116333153610844212
Show threadGlyph3d ago
@emmy Apparently not. It's got a "RE:" and then a link, then an image.
Show threadإمي ❄️🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸3d ago
@glyph That is baffling on Mastodon's part. My other account is on the glitch fork of Mastodon and it shows both.
Show threadJayF3d ago
@glyph @emmy I'm using tusky (Android) on a bog standard masto.host server and I saw it.
Show threadMisty3d ago
@glyph I strongly suspect this limitation only exists because that’s how Twitter worked.
Show threadb҉3d ago
@misty @glyph I was thinking the same thing - tho iirc twitter changed it to allow images in QRTs circa maybe late 2019?
Show threadThankful Machine2d ago
@glyph a million bucks says that it’s a non-composable schema