That could make possible the repost on Lemmy and that’s a big deal!
Today to repost, you boost and you can’t add anything else to the original toot like the mention of a lemmy community to allow fediversion of the content. This new feature might make it possible. I can’t wait!
Comment on Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 days ago
Okay, I get that they’re gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what’s stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn’t wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot?
pseudo@jlai.lu 6 days ago
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
what’s stopping me from just screenshoting
Images of text? Accessibility.
So, another sacrifice at the altar of social media to offer a deliberately broken feature at the expense of people who need accessibility.
- ableism +1
- accessibility 0
Social media can be such trash.
steve_awesome@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.
lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 6 days ago
Possible, unlikely, worse. The most accessible content is native text with the full content structure of the original.
Trumble@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Nothing, but the effort might be one the driving forces of how one uses social media. And thus how it’s communities begin to operate and feel.