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   Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:03:06 JST Taylor Lorenz

   Journalists will never stick around this app long term sadly unless it adds quote posting. We desperately need it to communicate effectively, build on each others ideas, and add crucial context to posts. These are things replies simply do not accomplish. Also quote posting or reblogging does not = harassment! Tumblr, for instance, has had the feature since the beginning. We need it here now too ??

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:03:04 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Eugen Rochko

     @taylorlorenz maybe we could just let @Gargron get his way for once, as a way of saying thanks for making this amazing software and supporting it for so long.

     We put up with all kinds of other bullshit features or lack thereof on other services. Maybe we could just be nice about QTs?

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     Taylor Lorenz (taylorlorenz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:03:05 JST Taylor Lorenz

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     Reblogging is organic user behavior and Twitter built the quote tweet feature because so many people were doing it manually already. It’s a huge burden on the user not to have this simple and important feature on a social platform imo (again just my personal opinion!)

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:16:12 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     @taylorlorenz non-mastodon fediverse servers do have quote posts
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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:27:58 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘
     @ryan oh well
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     𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘 (ryan@rebased.io)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:27:59 JST 𝕾𝖎𝖗 𝕽𝖞𝖆𝖓 𝕿𝖍𝖔𝖒𝖆𝖘

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     • on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

     I explained this to her so many times. She’s one of these tragic psychological masochist types. If you offer any solution to the things she complains about the message get redirected into the abyss

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     Ademan (ademan@shitposter.club)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:47:05 JST Ademan

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     I hope eugen remains steadfast in his opposition to the feature, then

     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ likes this.
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     þernia (pernia@cum.salon)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 08:54:47 JST þernia

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     @taylorlorenz >this "feature", designed by twitter to purely to inflate engagement by turning a reply into a standalone post, is necessary for "journalism" and "communication"
     stay on twitter, cocksucker
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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:24:36 JST Børge

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @mmasnick @taylorlorenz I saw a thread earlier on how quote boosts might be engineered for better conversations than QTs if the original post is on top and your comment below. Then multiple QBs could be grouped together in the timeline by showing the original once and the QB comments below. I don't know if this is true, but it sounds at least plausible and something that should be looked into.

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     Mike Masnick ✅ (mmasnick@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:24:37 JST Mike Masnick ✅

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     @taylorlorenz i disagree that they won't stick around necessarily... but it really is a useful feature, contrary to the beliefs of some here.

     A few notes though:

     1. Multiple mastodon forks have QT functionality. I expect that will expand.
     2. QT was only added to Twitter in 2015 (and only named QT officially in 2020) so the site did exist before it with plenty of users...
     3. I expect that we'll start to build some norms around here regarding the feature that make it even better than at Twitter.

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     Børge (forteller@tutoteket.no)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 10:29:22 JST Børge

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     • Mike Masnick ✅

     @mmasnick @taylorlorenz This is how it works on Facebook, and I can't remember ever seeing anyone have the same damning analysis of the fb share feature as clout chasing, rage baiting, dog piling civil discord destroying feature as I see people talk about QTs like every day on here. But then again Mastodon is more like Twitter, so comparing it with fb is less salient, of course. And many would say fb has been terrible for discourse too, with good reason.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@prodromou.pub)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 12:01:58 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Buzz Andersen

     @buzz @taylorlorenz love it.

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     Buzz Andersen (buzz@andersen.social)'s status on Saturday, 24-Dec-2022 12:02:22 JST Buzz Andersen

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     @taylorlorenz FWIW, there are forks like Hometown that have stated they plan to add quote tweeting. https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown