is there a standard patch for quote posts that works on mainline Mastodon or Glitch? i remember hearing that maybe Hometown or Treehouse had something that interops properly with Misskey quote posts?
@vyr sureI IF it's useful, here's a post I did back then looking at social threat modeling abuse vectors for QPs. TL:DR: QPs don't introduce significant new threats over screen-shot-and-link, but do remove a "speedbump" and so highlight some ways where Masto's current anti-harassment mechanisms could be improved. Also there are a few edge cases worth keeping in mind (e.g. disallowing public QPs of unlisted posts). https://privacy.thenexus.today/social-threat-modeling-and-quote-boosts/
@jdp23 yep, Mastodon's anti-harassment mechanisms are a bad joke, and native quote-boosting doesn't make them any worse than the obvious thing people are already doing everywhere. Mastodon doesn't control third-party clients in any case, which are perfectly capable of, and in some cases already are, implementing pseudo-quote-boost features that remove that speedbump.
@LevelUp lol, when enough former blue checks yell at Eugen, we suddenly get features that have been brushed off or have had implementations rejected for years
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