Can't believe I'm even getting started with this again, because this specific point seems to be utterly irrelevant to all the men who want #QuotePosts / #QuoteBoosts or whatever you want to call them and who don't care how they're used
The problem is that women with opinions would be quote posted to cc lists of misogynist, incel males all of whom would proceed to brigade her for hours and hours with vivid, angry threats
I saw it happen repeatedly on Twitter
"Oh, well, she should just #Mute and #Block all of them then!"
Yeah
Women with unpopular opinions should spend all their time on social media fighting a rear-guard action against woman-haters who are attacking them in packs
Or maybe never stick their necks out again, which is the desired effect
"Sit down and shut up, bitch, but fix me a sammich first!"
short version: we have a small set of bugs to fix and chores to do before an App Store release, and quote post UI will come after that, in version 1.8.
It has been zero days since someone said, “Why do you need quote posts? You can just reply and then boost the original post for context,” demonstrating a complete, profound, and probably willful lack of understanding of the value of quote tweets and how they were used.
(And also not showing a lot of situational awareness of how Mastodon itself works, either.)
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?
I feel like it's worth mentioning, re; quote-boosts/QTs, that we can't "just add the feature to Mastodon" in a federation - it's a lot more complicated than a lot of people seem to realise?
The argument about whether or not we should add QTs is an important one, but once we get past that there's the issue of federation.
Mastodon is one software of many using the ActivityPub "skeleton" code. If ActivityPub doesn't have QTs in its code and Mastodon adds a QT feature, any non-Mastodon software (or even server) has to work out how to interpret Mastodon's QTs. If it isn't Mastodon-compatible, QTs will just break. They might even break in a way that harms the person being QTed. And what if someone on another server boosts/reblogs that broken QT?
Also, since we on Mastodon can follow people who are using federated software that isn't Mastodon (e.g. instances/softwares that look and behave like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc), how does that work? Would people on Mastodon be able to QT people on not-Mastodon? How are the OPs going to feel about that? Would they even get notifications about it, since QTs aren't in the ActivityPub "skeleton" of federation?
And since we're a federation of separate servers even "within" Mastodon, there's also the question of how older/outdated Mastodon servers will handle incoming QTs. If you're on an older version of Mastodon and you follow someone on a newer instance and they QT someone, what would that look like? Maybe someone has intentionally chosen a fork of Mastodon with QTs turned off. Can people on other softwares QT them, and how would they feel about that?