It’s a good way to be pedantic on social media.
Comment on Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I’m blind but I don’t see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.
buddascrayon@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 1 week ago
So like this?
Or like this?
Evotech@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Wow, stop being so controversial
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 6 days ago
X does it more like the second one, but there’s nothing stopping mastodon from doing it like the first.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Is it just that it links back to the original or what? I mean how is it different from just quoting the post like this:
And then saying something about it?
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 week ago
The bubble would be the actual post itself, you know? Like having the full post within another post. Similar to what you just showed but clicking the bubble brings to to the original post.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 week ago
Right. I guess I just don’t understand the use case since I’m used to comment trees (like here on Lemmy) and you’re never confused about what someone is replying to since the comment being replied to is always just right above.