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 11 months 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 11 months ago
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months 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 11 months ago
So like this?
Or like this?
Evotech@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Wow, stop being so controversial
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 11 months ago
X does it more like the second one, but there’s nothing stopping mastodon from doing it like the first.
SorteKanin@feddit.dk 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.