Having boosts hidden (because Phanpy makes them easy to ignore with its carousel) and following the autistic tags+groups makes April Fools on social media much more tolerable. Pleasant surprise. Still had some annoyance though today, like Discord's loot box joke that I thought was real and irritated me. Didn't even feel like a joke considering Discord will soon be rolling out even more ads (Don't fall into the mistaken idea that Discord doesn't have ads, it does. What do you think game promos and collabs are?). I could see them easily adding loot boxes and other nonsense in the future. My paranoia made me wonder if this "joke" of theirs was a test to warm the waters, so to speak.
@zyd
I think it's considered bad form to toot a quote (or link) of a toot rather than boosting the other toot. Because the intent mostly appears to be to boost the toot without boosting the toot. @dekkzz76
@zyd@lispi314
quotes from one smaller social group put into other conversations of another larger violently opposed group who would dogpile the first group destroying any chance the first social group have of using twitter
think trans people or gays against right wing evangelical groups on twitter
@dekkzz76@zyd Mostly out of convenience, there's little reason for its absense to have any real impact on that. As has been demonstrated by fedi bad actors promptly coming up with alternatives.
@dekkzz76@lispi314 I believe both Akkoma and Misskey (et al) support it. With Akkoma I've read that quoted posts simply get attached as a reply to the post, so its more of a formalization of what already occurs in Mastodon servers.
Would be interesting to try out Akkoma but every server I see is too closely aligned with chan (and derivative) culture. Extremely irony poisoned and mean spirited. Don't think that has to do with quote replies but it is interesting.
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