Is there a “I want #quotes in #Mastodon” button that I can hit somewhere?
Seriously, it’s holding everything and everybody behind.
Context: I’ve decided to play with some tighter interaction between my #Akkoma social feed and my #WriteFreely blog.
I can now write long posts in a more blog-friendly format on @fabio. Then leverage the Fediverse integration to quote them from my main handle.
My Akkoma post can add a TL;DR and a bunch of hashtags. And the quoted message has a nice “Read more“ link that can expand the blog post for those who want to read it directly on their timeline.
Amazing, right?
Well, just look how nicely it’s rendered on my Akkoma instance, and how Mastodon renders it instead.
A cryptic RE: https://my.write.freely/api/posts/post-id that doesn’t even render a preview nor anything.
The cryptic version is the way that >75% of the people who use the Fediverse will see on their timelines.
No matter how much progress other implementations decide to do. No matter how sophisticated their UX. If the major implementation decides that quotes will never be a thing, we’re kind of stuck in the state where JavaScript could do amazing things on Firefox, but most of the folks used IE, so the party was ruined for everybody else too.
