D. B. Stuck
Sometimes you don't want to be the reply guy within a post that has sparked something within you. I've quoted a post a time or two because of that.
Someone's going through something and they don't need my story to pile on their thread. I'll make a short supportive comment and a boost. Then I will screenshot the item and put my feelings into my own time line with that screen shot.
If there's a better way to do this, I'd like to learn.
BeAware :fediverse:
@MyWoolyMastadon @whalecoiner most apps nowadays have quote posts built in, which means there's no instance hopping issues...🤨
So...don't use the website or official app and you should be good to use quote posts.
BeAware :fediverse:
@MyWoolyMastadon @whalecoiner Ah, I've never used Tusky.
Moshidon, IceCubes, Ivory, Mona all have Quote posting features.😬
D. B. Stuck
Which apps are you using. I'm not seeing this in Tusky.
D. B. Stuck
You just listed the apps I've never tried. LOL.
dragonfrog, hungry waffle
@MyWoolyMastadon @BeAware @whalecoiner in Tusky you can tap the ... under a post, copy the link, paste it into your own post to make a quote post. When reading a quote post like that, Tusky will show a preview of the post and clicking on it will keep you in your own instance so you can reply to the original.
BeAware :fediverse:
@MyWoolyMastadon well now I have to derail the conversation.😂
Things like this always interest me.
Were you on Twitter before, at some point?
If so, did they have an app to do this?🤔
Just wondering, because I was on Twitter and always used the browser and never had that experience, and thus never wanted it.
So, coming from Twitter, where this type of thing was never a thing, (unless there's a third party app) it always confuses me when I see people discussing this, because I just never thought of a "microblogging" platform to be reverse chronological.
D. B. Stuck
@dragonfrog @BeAware @whalecoiner
Excellent to know! Thanks!
I like it in Tusky that you can scroll up easily. It's the only app I scroll up and prefer it that way. It's like keeping up with current stuff and not going down a rabbit hole of a time line.
BeAware :fediverse:
@MyWoolyMastadon ah, okay. Neat! Mastodon has this, it's just hidden behind the "advanced web interface" feature that exists exclusively on the web and in certain apps like Moshidon.
Though, I was specifically more talking about scrolling up the feed instead of down.
D. B. Stuck
In Twitter and within the browser there was Twitter decks. You could make a deck to follow an account(s). It generated columns and each colum would put a new post at top when it happened. For me it was not that intuitive. Then again I could never figure out Twitter lists as easily as I did on Mastodon.
Decks was really good at keeping you up to date with a hashtag as it happened.
Had friends in the path of a couple of hurricanes and it was nice getting a live updates for the area.
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