While I realize some people want a really robust, built-in Quote Post kinda experience, where they push a 'quote' button, and the original quoter gets notified, and the original quoter can block quote posts....
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Oliphantom Menacewrote last edited by [email protected]
While I realize some people want a really robust, built-in Quote Post kinda experience, where they push a 'quote' button, and the original poster gets notified, and the original poster can also block quote posts....
I swear I feel like most people just wanted a better preview of a linked post, so they don't have to click through to the original post to read it.
And if you run a Mastodon server, you can basically do that with this custom CSS installed on your server:
/* quote posts */
.status-card__image:has(.fa) {
display: none;
}
.status-card__description {
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@oliphant plus plenty third-party clients like Ivory do it. And I definitely just wanted inline previews. I don’t want QTs to be a vehicle for harassing an OP. I want to be able to discuss a point OP raised WITHOUT annoying them.
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@gemini6ice Yeah, that's what bugs me about this. We're spending a fortune in terms of dev time not to mention increasing complexity of the software, in order to deliver something I'm not even sure people want, that could have been handled with a CSS fix to address what I think most people want.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by
@gemini6ice Phanpy on the web does this really well, too, to the point where it looks and feels a lot like a real quote post.
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Oliphantom Menacereplied to Oliphantom Menace last edited by [email protected]
The way Mastodon does a handoff to another server when you click a link, rather than pulling in the activity pub link, means that users are clicking and opening to a new page where they can't continue the conversation because they aren't logged in on that remote server.
And if the UI allowed you to click a fedi link and open it inline, rather than redirecting to a new instance, people would be a lot less confused. And if you embedded the entire post in the first place, people wouldn't have to click on the OP in the first place to understand the commentary about it.
And that's the flow I wish we'd focused on, rather than quote posts.
Incidentally, this is how it works in Phanpy. Phanpy doesn't take you outside of the UI when you click a link to another fedi post.
