Francis Augusto 🇳🇴/🇧🇷/:bahia:

@Mastodon I believe that there are SO many other things development should focus on before quoted posts:

- better following/liking/boosting interface for remote instances (copy and pasting url's is by no means friendly)
- moving posts between instances when transfering accounts
- ability to change domains (tough one)

Post quoting does help to dogpiling, though I believe that dogpillers will be dogpillers.

And putting mastodon.social as default sends a wrong, oh so wrong, message.

Like 2 May 2023 at 7:36 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.babb.no

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Santiago Lema :amiga:

@francis @Mastodon speaking of easier following: not sure how @ivory managed to do this but when I am on a mastodon.social web link I have an ivory banner that makes to such profile ?

2 May 2023 at 10:16 | Open on masto.lema.org

Francis Augusto 🇳🇴/🇧🇷/:bahia:

@santiago @Mastodon @ivory they added a smart app banner to the website. I think all instances can do it, but not so sure.

2 May 2023 at 18:05 | Open on mastodon.babb.no

Santiago Lema :amiga:

@francis @Mastodon @ivory Sure any website can do this. So there was some arrangement between mastodon.social and ivory devs ? Hadn’t heard of it. I’d understand it if there was a banner for the “official” app.

2 May 2023 at 19:36 | Open on masto.lema.org

Santiago Lema :amiga:

@francis @Mastodon @ivory That’s one sad thing about Mastodon. This is so essential and yet somehow isn’t top priority.

It would literally take one minute for @Gargron to say “Hey mastodon://@user@instance links are the standard, please handle these in your apps” and websites and apps all over would start using this in a week or so. Onboarding would be so much easier.

2 May 2023 at 20:22 | Open on masto.lema.org

Santiago Lema :amiga:

@francis @Mastodon @ivory @Gargron This was by far the biggest annoyance when I decided to move here for good last year. Somehow people normalized having to copy and paste a URL into a search field to follow a user.

Worst part is that after a while you forget because once you use onky Mastodon it isn’t an issue anymore. You find people directly from your feeds. But it’s terrible from the web.

2 May 2023 at 20:27 | Open on masto.lema.org