Comment on Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
Gabadabs@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days agoIt’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
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:
It’s like a repost, but it lets you add your own post to it and shows the original post as a quote bubble.
And then saying something about it?
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.
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.
It’s used in the context of a micro-blogging platform where your feed consists of individual posts that don’t show the whole comment thread. If I replied to a post on mastodon, my followers only see my post on their timeline unless they click on my post to see it’s context. A quote post can be used to present someone else’s post to your followers, with whatever you want to say about it.
MimicJar@lemmy.world 6 days 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.