 Idea: enabling "quote tweets" in Hometown but only for accounts that are self-identified as bots (aka the Service actor in activitypub). That way you're by definition not using the feature to dogpile on a person. There are so many times I want to surface some cool bot content but with a little commentary or context. Note that this is just an idea, not a plan for Hometown. Curious to think what others think of it. 13 comments
@technomancy it would only render on Hometown and otherwise degrade as a URL at the end of the post  @darius "render on Hometown" meaning people who use the mastodon frontend as their client? it seems like a neat feature but I'm not a big fan of the mastodon frontend personally so even if i were on hometown i wouldn't use it. it's a shame that kind of thing is so much work to implement in a way that everyone could use it.   There's a bunch to unpack here... The idea of dogpiling being "inevitable" is a complex one. It does indeed happen, and it's true that quote post would make it more difficult to mute such conversations, but as you correctly point out, it's already possible to simply embed a URL and have the same essential effect. At the same time, as we see on Twitter, quote tweets also have a great deal of value, value that's simply not possible to capture here right now.  I plan to implement VKontakte-style reposts in Smithereen. I don't like it when reposting something doesn't create a separate comment thread for that particular repost.  @darius this sounds like a great way to implement the feature in order to avoid the pitfalls. @darius so, if someone has to check that box to make the account a bot there could, in theory, be another box for “qt” and then users could opt in to quoted toots and then have a QT badge calling them cute  @gingerrroot @darius love the idea of a 'cute' badge in the same format as the 'bot' badge to be able to mark an account as cute!   @darius I mute a lot of bots. If someone boosts a bot that I have need, that respects my mute. If someone replies to a bot, that respected my mute. If someone posts a link to a bot post “quote tweet” style, that does not. Is there a reason to build a “quote tweet” style for bots rather than just use existing replies to bots? Still some fun ideas of how you could style Bot replies differently from non-Bot replies, but it doesn’t also serve to route around mutes/blocks. |
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@darius wouldn't this require coordination across pinafore, tusky, etc? or could it be done fully server-side?