So I've run this poll until yesterday. The question was whether the Fediverse has quote-posts.
20 users voted for yes, 8 users voted for no.
Of course, this poll wasn't representative. I dare say my "bubble" is more Fediverse-savvy than the average, and I know I had quite a number of voters from Hubzilla and (streams). So the result is greatly skewed towards "yes". And still, 40% of all voters thought the Fediverse had no quote-posts.
This shows how well especially Mastodon users know the Fediverse.
Oh, and by the way: The Fediverse does have quote-posts. Just about everything that isn't Mastodon can quote-post, and it all can even quote-post Mastodon toots with next to zero resistance. And in fact, quote-posts in the Fediverse are about six years older than Mastodon.
We started doing quote posts as a way to bridge conversations from RSS feeds and StatusNet to Diaspora - since we could see all of them but they couldn't talk to each other directly. That would've been some time in 2011. I don't recall exactly when.
But people have been copy/pasting posts and snippets of posts and articles from external sources since forever. You actually can't stop them.
Eugen can't. Adam Mosseri can't. I can't. Nobody can. Pretend permissions aren't permissions.
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