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4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not having
https://scott.mn/2022/10/29/twitter_features_mastodon_is_better_without/
scott.mn4 Twitter features Mastodon is better for not havingWhen less is more for healthy conversations
I think not having quote tweets is extremely silly. Assuming people are being tricked by the app into being mean is foolish. Quote tweeting is highly useful, I want to link people to my old threads. Just make it give people a notification.
@oblivion_comes @yogthos Integrating this kind of stuff in ActivityPub is actually a work in progress https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-e232-object-links/2536
To be seen if it will be implemented by Mastodon, though.
SocialHubFEP-e232: Object LinksHello! FEP-e232 is a proposal for representing text-based links to ActivityPub objects using tags. The immediate goal is standardization of quotes (related issues: Misskey, Pleroma, Mastodon), but in the future this specification can be re-used for other kinds of cross-references (e.g. in federated wikis).
Nice idea, hopefully Mastodon adds this in.
We had a great deal of lively discussion about the best implementation and that's the standard which emerged. For what it's worth, my software will still support the existing ten ways of doing quoted shares until the legacy code finally dies out. But as far as I know, most everybody is on board with this except Mastodon (who refuse to implement it) and one other project I won't name.