As we know, #quoteposts aren’t really a thing in #mastodon (yet, hopefully) but in my phases of trying out different mastodon clients I have noticed that one of them actually gives you the option to ‘quote post’ something — but how is an iOS client able to have the feature when mastodon as a whole does not? If anybody knows/has knowledge about this and could shed some light on it, that’d be super cool. I’ve just always wondered.
So here I am ‘quote posting’ this Washington Post article just to go over to my other mastodon client, mammoth to see what it looks like. If anybody sees this and cares any amount at all, feel free to let me know what it looks like on your end! I just want to know if it actually works as a quote post on the other side of things. Because if so, well then Ice Cubes is awesome but again how does that work?
P.s. I’m so glad I moved back to the InfoSec instance. I never have to worry about running out of space when posting now. So, randomly, if you see this — thanks Jerry! 😂
@blakehensley@washingtonpost QPs are on the roadmap for Mastodon https://joinmastodon.org/roadmap. As for why some clients support a qp-like feature, it's a popular requested feature and not difficult (imo) in practice to provide. A QP is really just a link to another post where you can see the text and OP account. I think whether it works or not in other clients will vary.
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