Taylor Lorenz
Screenshotting this post 👇🏻 in order to quote post it! I don’t know where people get the idea that quote posting = dunks, personally I feel that that opinion is just Twitter brain.
Every major social platform from Tumblr, to Facebook, to LinkedIn and more has the ability to natively quote post. This is because the primary use of such a feature is to amplify information w added context or to open a new line of discussion. Replies are used far more often for harassment but we don’t ban replies!
Aral Balkan
@taylorlorenz Alt text:
Marco Rogers seo
@polotek@social.polot... - 7 hours ago
So mastodon doesn't do quoted posts. | think |
understand the goal of avoiding that feature.
People have decided that "dunking" is the
overriding usage of quoting and that we should
avoid the inherent toxicity.
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Aral Balkan
@taylorlorenz Alt text (cont.)
But quoted posts are also the foundation of
true discourse in a medium like this. It is the
primary way to start *new* conversation that is
an offshoot of an existing conversation rather
than a direct response.
I'm finding it hard to do that on here. And the
result is | just don't post.
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Aral Balkan
@Egoplacebo @taylorlorenz The “without it being abused” is the hard part.
Ego Placebo 🏳️🌈🇦🇺
@aral
I too notice the absence of this functionality, it would be nice if we could find some way to implement it without it being abused!
@taylorlorenz
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