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   BeAware (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 11:47:17 JST BeAware

   Ya know....I've been on Threads for a little bit now and experienced some interesting things.

   Mastodon devs claim that they're taking so long to do Quote Posts because it's "not as simple as posting a link, like these third party apps are doing, its actually quite complex".

   And here Threads is, doing exactly that. You post a Threads link into a post, it becomes a quote post....🤔

   Is there some weird trickery behind the scenes going on that I'm not aware that is happening or....is it really that easy? I do feel like I'm being fooled by Threads.

   #Fediverse #Fedi #Threads #Mastodon #QuotePosts #ActivityPub

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     Sam Nabi (samnabi@spore.social)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 11:51:31 JST Sam Nabi

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     @BeAware A lot of Mastodon clients (including the one I’m using) already do this. TBH I forgot Mastodon doesn’t have native quote toots yet 😂

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     william.maggos (wjmaggos@liberal.city)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 12:02:36 JST william.maggos

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     @BeAware

     I think Mastodon wants to do it better, to make it harder to use for harassment. I think we have better moderation so that this isn't really necessary, but I appreciate the effort.

     I'd like it to work more like a normal boost but where you also see the comment from the booster. I think that's the spirit behind the thing, not to create another thread that's essentially separate from the original post. That's what a normal QT did.

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     RxBrad (rxbrad@mastodon.rxbrad.com)'s status on Friday, 03-May-2024 23:04:54 JST RxBrad

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     @BeAware Some client apps already do quote posts, too. Works great in #TrunksApp (with the exception of quoted Threads posts).

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     RxBrad (rxbrad@mastodon.rxbrad.com)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 00:00:49 JST RxBrad

     @BeAware Actually read?