Gregory's Server@Gargron Funny thing, I already can do the same in Mastodon: toot my message with a link to the original toot. I don't need to notify the author of the quoted toot, anyway.
It may be not as visually clean, but it works.
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 @espectalll Like, having it be included in the UI as a button, so that more people can do it without any thought or extra work. @trwnh I personally think the worst part of quoting on Twitter is sending a notification to the author of the quoted tweet - it'd probably not be a bad thing for anyone if it's made in a way that makes you only talk to your followers. @MPurpureus On a toot, right-click on its time tag. Copy the link and paste it into a new toot. @espectalll it's still better than including it because it makes it harder to prevent the casual observer from being forced to see the toot in its context, whereas in twitter that prevention is the unmarked default norm @carcinopithecus consider the following: there's nothing preventing Mastodon from providing a "hide mentions" or "hide mention previews" option. And they could also be CW'd.  @espectalll @Gargron It used to be that way on the birdsite, too. Doing so required a tiny bit of thought and effort--enough to consider whether this was really the best way to respond to a toot/tweet. Sometimes it's worth it, other times not. Doing it automatically makes it just a little too easy. Eugen is right about this... even when it makes more work for me. |
@Gargron (also, now that I notice: could you make it possible to drag an URL into the search box? That would be useful quoting or not)