ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agoMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comexternal-linkmessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1244arrow-down12 cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1242arrow-down1external-linkMastodon is bringing quote posts to the fediversewww.theverge.comardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square30fedilink cross-posted to: [email protected]
minus-squareFailBetter@crust.piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·2 days agoThis is a pretty big deal for Masto, yeah?
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoYeah, people have been arguing about it for at least the last three years, since the first big twitter migration. Everyone just kind of ignored that you could screenshot a post and reply to it already.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoIf you screenshot the post, there’s no guarantee it’s not doctored
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 days agoThat’s fine. The friction of typing in the person’s name to harass them from the screenshot does deter some people, it turns out.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 days agoI actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
minus-squaresem@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoSame. I like that it is hard to go viral. It feels more like people talking and less like influencers (although there are some.)
minus-squareT156@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoAt the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoYup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.
This is a pretty big deal for Masto, yeah?
Yeah, people have been arguing about it for at least the last three years, since the first big twitter migration.
Everyone just kind of ignored that you could screenshot a post and reply to it already.
If you screenshot the post, there’s no guarantee it’s not doctored
That’s fine. The friction of typing in the person’s name to harass them from the screenshot does deter some people, it turns out.
I actually like that Mastodon is more manual. Keeps things less combative overall.
Same. I like that it is hard to go viral. It feels more like people talking and less like influencers (although there are some.)
At the same time, the lack of virality may hurt it since it feels much more like a burgeoning project. One of the draws for someone coming off of Twitter would be feature parity, and Mastodon feeling less complete and much smaller wouldn’t help.
Yup. There’s just something that makes social media better when you are forced to be more intentional about it.