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Eugen Rochko

I was just answering a question that multiple new people asked me, it's not like I *just* made the decision. Didn't expect this toot to blow up of all things haha. This has been my position since that feature was requested for the first time more than a year ago

10 Mar 2018 at 23:21 | Open on mastodon.social
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bel
avocado goblin

@gargron
>changes position on search which is still easily abusable by admins
>refuses to budge in position on something even less abusable

le wat

10 Mar 2018 at 23:27 | Open on cybre.space
Eugen Rochko

@a_breakin_glass I have not changed my position on search one bit. I have implemented a form of search that fits my vision. Like literally, this search just saves you scrolling through your notifications or your own profile or your favourites, nothing else.

You can really stop @'ing me about it.

10 Mar 2018 at 23:31 | Open on mastodon.social
Alexis
mila
皮一下就是爽（此号已暂停使用）

@Gargron That has explained a lot, thank you.
Another thing, mastodon allows users to request their activitypub archive, but if someone want to move from one account to another (or from one instance to another), there's still no way to imput all the toots he or she posted in the previous account. Is that also a delibrate design?

12 May 2020 at 19:22 | Open on bgme.me
joene 🏴🍉🌲

@Gargron 1. Is this your individual opinion or do other developers also agree on this? Sounds like something the dev-team should at least agree on, otherwise the community should.

2. There are two different approaches to quoted tweets.

One is the one you describing, people harassing others using this feature.

But the other approach is not toxic. It's the way people use quoted retweets with news tweets and public (e.g. political) figures. People who want to tell their followers what they think about the tweet they quoted. If they reply under the tweet, it will be difficult to find, also for their followers. Quoted retweets/post also appear on the default user timeline.

💡 Therefore I advise to create a opt-in quoted posts feature. With a text like: 'are you a news outlet or a public figure, offer your followers the option to quote your posts.

@Gargron 1. Is this your individual opinion or do other developers also agree on this? Sounds like something the dev-team should at least agree on, otherwise the community should.

2. There are two different approaches to quoted tweets.

One is the one you describing, people harassing others using this feature.

28 Oct 2022 at 22:06 | Open on todon.nl
grischa
@joenepraat
I absolutely agree in what @Gargron says, but to answer your first question: This is a platform decision not a fediverse decision. If you disagree with that decision, you are free to choose another platform like Hubzilla i.e. There is no boosting but quoting only.
And as it still is the fediverse, all this platforms communicate with each other.

In the fediverse you are not only not bound to instances, but also not to platforms and coders decisions. :)
@joenepraat
I absolutely agree in what @Gargron says, but to answer your first question: This is a platform decision not a fediverse decision. If you disagree with that decision, you are free to choose another platform like Hubzilla i.e. There is no boosting but quoting only.
29 Oct 2022 at 21:23 | Open on brockha.us
Sebastian :mastoprincess:

@gargron but you could implement the Mastodon emojies. :mastoblush:

I would change their hair to purple. :mastovampire:

29 Oct 2022 at 5:44 | Open on social.tchncs.de
Chris Maler

@Gargron the alternative which will replace quote tweets will likely be screenshot+link+comment. It's certainly less elegant.

5 Nov 2022 at 12:23 | Open on sunny.garden
Zorin =^o.o^=

@Gargron This is probably the way to go. Nearly every time I've been QRTed on birdsite it's been to criticize. Criticize me to my face, not to your followers.

If someone wants to criticize me by replying to my post and then retweeting it, fine. At least I had the courtesy of a reply to me.

5 Nov 2022 at 17:16 | Open on mastodon.social
undívaga

@Gargron i often used quoted tweets at Twitter to quote myself, mainly for technical topics that required long threads. Now in Mastodon I wouldn't like to repeat myself once and over again.

9 Nov 2022 at 14:45 | Open on paquita.masto.host
catherine
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