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   BeAware :fediverse: (beaware@social.beaware.live)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:27:34 JST BeAware :fediverse:

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   • Chris Trottier

   @atomicpoet with some of their wording, I was a bit worried that this would allow the Fedi Mafia/HOA/Fedi Gatekeepers to harass devs and simply stop people like us from calling them out by linking to them.

   Thankfully, a dev said they currently aren't thinking of tying "linking a post" to quote posts.

   Their wording made it come off that way because that's how Threads does Quote Posts.

   If you're on Threads and wanna link to another post, it's automatically a quote post. Someone limits who can quote post? You're not linking to their post.

   Obviously even if they did that, it wouldn't effect you because you're on Akkoma, but it did have me worried for a bit.😬

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     Chris Trottier (atomicpoet@atomicpoet.org)'s status on Saturday, 15-Feb-2025 03:27:35 JST Chris Trottier
     #Mastodon is being more blatant—it will add quote posts.
     
     This will piss some people off but frankly, this has been in the works for years.
     
     To those who believe quote posts are abusive, there is no data whatsoever that shows any correlation between quote posts and abuse.
     
     And actually, platforms like #Misskey, #Akkoma, and #Friendica have had that feature for years, and hardly anyone using those platforms has ever complained.
     
     In fact, I use quote posts every day. No one’s complained to me about my use of quote posts.
     
     Nevertheless, Mastodon is doing the right thing—and it takes serious courage to tell the Fedi Gatekeepers that this will happen. There will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth. But it’s a change that needed to happen.
     
     https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/