Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon
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Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.
  • BrikoX@lemmy.zipMEnglish
    1·
    7 days ago

    You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all.

    This is bad idea. Inconsistently applied features leads to user confusion and ultimately frustration.

    That’s the one thing we should learn from corporate social media development. They do a lot of testing in selective groups before implementing new features and when they implement them they are always applied universally.

      • Microw@lemm.ee
        1·
        6 days ago

        The problem here is that Mastodon will let people opt out of being post quoted, but it currently looks like Misskey and other fedi software will not respect that setting