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Lots of speculation here, but:

Probably one reason it’s taken so long to implement quote posts isn’t because it’s all that hard to pull a preview and display it when embedding a link to another post, it has to do with notifications.

And likely also things like filters.

For instance, if I block/filter out the original post, are all quote posts of that post also filtered?

I mean, I’d certainly hope so.

And then there are the people who don’t want quote posts at all. Will there be a profile setting to disable the ability to quote post anything? Will it only be enabled for Public posts? Will it work across servers (ie., if you reply to a post on some other server, will your quote post settings work there, too? Will this be honored by other fediverse software?)

Lots of potential factors to get right here, depending on how much work they put into the implementation.

—@oliphant

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I see people telling us that we shouldn’t be negative about Bluesky, that we should give it a chance and see what happens. But how else are we supposed to judge the trustworthiness of a new system than by our past experiences with the people involved? And frankly, the Twitter experience was absolutely miserable. I simply don’t trust Jack Dorsey or anyone who works with him, with good reason.

—@Green_Footballs

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@Bruce G_NS Okay, let me explain it to you with a fictional dialogue between me and a Fediverse News subscriber who’s convinced that all of the Fediverse is Mastodon.

Them: >implying that Mastodon is the Fediverse

Me: #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse.

Them: What do you mean?

Me: You’re literally using something that isn’t Mastodon, but in the Fediverse. Fediverse News is on Friendica.

Them: But Friendica is a Mastodon server.

Me: No, it isn’t.

Them: But it has to be. How else can I possibly use it if it isn’t on Mastodon?

Me: Because Mastodon and Friendica speak a common language, ActivityPub. Still, Friendica is an absolutely unrelated project. Face it, there’s more in the Fediverse than just Mastodon.

Them: WTF? Then Friendica is a group add-on for Mastodon?

Me: No, Friendica has got literally nothing to do with Mastodon. It’s wholly independent. Actually, it can do everything that Mastodon can do.

Them: So it’s some shoddy Mastodon knock-off that can do forums?

Me: No. Friendica can do all that Mastodon can do without Mastodon, it can do it better than Mastodon, and it can do even more on top that Mastodon can’t do.

Them: Lies. Why are you fucking lying to me?

Me: Oh, and Friendica is older than Mastodon. Mastodon is from 2016, Friendica is from 2010. When Mastodon was launched, Friendica had been around for a whopping six years already.

Them: Like. What. The. Ever-loving. FUCK?!?!?! Stop bullshitting me! Friendica is nothing but a fucking Mastodon clone, and all that’s good about it is the forums, and I don’t want anything else than that!

Me: I’m not bullshitting you. If I am, then so is Wikipedia. Release date: July 1st, 2010. That’s a fact. Deal with it.

Them: So… there’s… like two Mastodons, and they’re both in the Fediverse? WTF?

Me: There are many projects in the Fediverse that are like Mastodon but with more features. Pleroma, Akkoma, MissKey, CalcKey, FoundKey… There are many other projects that aren’t like Mastodon. Friendica is more like Facebook. I’m on Hubzilla which is even more powerful than Friendica and still older than Mastodon. And they can all communicate with Mastodon.

Them: What… WTF… NOOOOO I DON’T WANT ANY OF THAT I WANT MY FEDIVERSE TO BE ONLY MASTODON AND NICE AND COZY AND CUDDLY AND I DON’T WANT NOTHING ELSE IN MY BELOVED FEDIVERSE MAKE IT GO AWAY I WANT MY MASTODON-ONLY FEDIVERSE BACK NOOOOOOOO THIS IS TOO MUCH SOMEONE PLEASE FEDIBLOCK EVERYTHING THAT ISN’T MASTODON

End of demonstration.

I’m not even kidding, I’ve read a story about someone from the “Fediverse = Mastodon” crowd who actually blocked a Friendica user for telling them that the Fediverse is not just Mastodon and for allegedly “intruding” into their timeline with some black hacking magic or something.

Some people don’t want there to be anything else in the Fediverse than Mastodon.

—@jupiter_rowland

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I see many people still don’t understand this. When legislation calls for children to get permission from parents for social media use and/or be under restricted hours, this requires that *ALL* users of social media, children, parents, people with no children, etc. be identified by government IDs (in the case of young children, via their parents’ IDs). Again, even if you don’t have kids, YOU WILL BE REQUIRED to use government ID for access, otherwise you cannot prove you are NOT a child. Think about it.

—@lauren

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I’m looking for a good seuda shleshit bencher. I do have one with nusach sphard (I presume ) but a lot of the text is in Aramaic, presumably from the Zohar, and I would need Hebrew to get the most out of it. Alternatively if there is a sidur from any community or time somewhere that has a seuda shleshit “service” what would that be and where could I find it?

#jewish #prayer #davening #Shabbat

—@oregonmiles

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Easy to miss in Mastodon’s latest update, but the most-requested features are indeed coming “soon:”

“…quote posts, improved content and profile search, and groups. We’re also continuously working on improving content and profile discovery, onboarding, and of course our extensive set of moderation tools, as well as removing friction from decentralized features. Keep a lookout for these updates soon.”

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/

@spreadmastodon @fediversenews

—@davidslifka

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New post: 43% of the Web Can No Longer (Easily) Auto-Share to Twitter – https://www.disruptiveconversations.com/2023/05/43-of-the-web-can-no-longer-easily-auto-share-to-twitter.html

… wherein I write about how Twitter’s decision to impose huge prices on API access has caused Automattic to discontinue auto-sharing from their hosted #WordPress .com site and also through the #Jetpack plugin used by people (like me) who host their own WP sites.

The good news is that Automattic says they’ll soon enable auto-sharing to #Mastodon , which will be a great help!

—@danyork

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Folks have been talking a lot about QT’s lately. I’ll just relay my personal experience:
I can’t count how many times I’ve come across a post, thought “that post is stupid, let me show my followers so I can make fun of it,” then remember that quote tweets aren’t a thing. I then go: “Oh. Well. Hm. Probably for the best TBH”… and then I move on with my life!
F*cking glorious.
Not everyone uses QT’s this way, but I absolutely did.
Having that urge taken from me isn’t a bad thing.

—@objectinspace

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I’m glad to see reporting looking into the data theft behind “AI”. But it’s super frustrating to be misquoted like this. I was not talking about “current laws”, nor about “AIs”. Collections of linear algebra are not the kind of things that can have accountability, period.

I’ve sent email to @mimsical asking for a correction, but haven’t heard back. (It is a Saturday, but also the piece went live today.) Hopefully he can get the WSJ to correct the article.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-ai-artificial-intelligence-openai-personal-writing-5328339a

—@emilymbender

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Hello everyone, just moved the account to this new instance!

I think it’s time for a new #introduction then!

Ice Cubes is available on the App Store for iOS, iPadOS and macOS, it’s a fast, customisable, easy to use client.

– Pin any local timeline from any instance!
– Quote toot!
– Easy access to your lists and followed tags!
– Proper direct messages interface.
– It’s 100% free and Open source!

Feel free to boost so the whole Fediverse can know about it!

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884

—@IceCubesApp