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   Ryan Pollard (rdp@hachyderm.io)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:27:54 JST Ryan Pollard

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   • Taylor Lorenz

   @taylorlorenz Your wish might be granted soon enough. There are a good number of GitHub issues pertaining to the addition of, opting out of, and management of quote boosts. It's gained a lot of traction in the past year (way more than i would have ever expected) and I wouldn't be surprised to see it in the near future.

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     Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:27:55 JST Taylor Lorenz

     Screenshotting this post 👇🏻 in order to quote post it! I don’t know where people get the idea that quote posting = dunks, personally I feel that that opinion is just Twitter brain.

     Every major social platform from Tumblr, to Facebook, to LinkedIn and more has the ability to natively quote post. This is because the primary use of such a feature is to amplify information w added context or to open a new line of discussion. Replies are used far more often for harassment but we don’t ban replies!

     Tim Chambers repeated this.
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     Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:27:55 JST Taylor Lorenz

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     Personally, I’d like to have quote posts as an option. I think it would be crucial to allow people to opt out of the feature, but I do think quote posts could allow for a lot of really great and thoughtful, nuanced convos on here that are currently too hard to have in the comments (and the way things are now replies are closer to a comment section). I really love Mastodon, but it would be great to see the platform experiment more (again, while giving ppl the easy and clear option of opting out!)

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:30:16 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Taylor Lorenz

     @taylorlorenz Alt text:

     Marco Rogers seo
     @polotek@social.polot... - 7 hours ago

     So mastodon doesn't do quoted posts. | think |
     understand the goal of avoiding that feature.
     People have decided that "dunking" is the
     overriding usage of quoting and that we should
     avoid the inherent toxicity.

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 19:30:52 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Taylor Lorenz

     @taylorlorenz Alt text (cont.)

     But quoted posts are also the foundation of
     true discourse in a medium like this. It is the
     primary way to start *new* conversation that is
     an offshoot of an existing conversation rather
     than a direct response.

     I'm finding it hard to do that on here. And the
     result is | just don't post.

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     Joshua Jung (joshua@social.tupo.space)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 20:47:12 JST Joshua Jung

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     • Taylor Lorenz
     • Casey Liss
     • Renaud Chaput

     @taylorlorenz @caseyliss
     I thought this post by @renchap regarding quote posts was helpful. It doesn't sound at all like this is out of the picture. Would be interesting to know if there are any news since August. https://oisaur.com/@renchap/110946767951037889

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 20:47:12 JST Renaud Chaput

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     • Taylor Lorenz
     • Casey Liss
     • Joshua Jung

     @joshua No real news, we are still thinking on the best way for this to work on the protocol (ActivityPub) level, and are discussing it with a few other AP implementers. We expect to be able to show some work in the coming months. It will also depend if we manage to get funding for the feature (we applied for some EU programs)
     @taylorlorenz @caseyliss

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     Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 21:06:15 JST Aral Balkan

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     • Taylor Lorenz
     • Ego Placebo 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺

     @Egoplacebo @taylorlorenz The “without it being abused” is the hard part.

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     Ego Placebo 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺 (egoplacebo@aus.social)'s status on Friday, 05-Jan-2024 21:06:16 JST Ego Placebo 🏳️‍🌈🇦🇺

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     • Aral Balkan
     • Taylor Lorenz

     @aral
     I too notice the absence of this functionality, it would be nice if we could find some way to implement it without it being abused!
     @taylorlorenz