pasting links in without shortener is also a good idea because tracking tends to be put on the end of the expanded URL, and you get to see this right away without the shortener (and then hopefully people will stop whacking Urchin tracking onto the end of the URL!)
Sinon petite note en passant, mon opinion est faite, les "quote toots" sont indispensables pour l'avenir du #fédivers de #mastodon en particulier. #qt#quotetoot
When you wonder why Notifications isn't lighting up when you post, maybe the reason is because there's really nothing of real substance to add yet. Sometimes silence is golden.
I'll take that any old day over the drive-by "you're WRONG on the internet" "discourse" that's littered forums and (anti-)social media.
Aw, too bad... looks like someone didn't think about any consequences, or even look past the end of his nose, when he backed this
While I'm really non-plussed about any "tourism" industry, and definitely won't shed a tear for anyone running migrant workers into the ground, a lot of people hold work there. It's these workers who are getting shafted.
I'm making a prediction: the introduction of #quoteToots will do absolutely nothing to help retention or entice users to join the #Fediverse (or even just #Mastodon in particular), and it will be responsible for a significant lowering of the level of discourse.
I feel like it's worth mentioning, re; quote-boosts/QTs, that we can't "just add the feature to Mastodon" in a federation - it's a lot more complicated than a lot of people seem to realise?
The argument about whether or not we should add QTs is an important one, but once we get past that there's the issue of federation.
Mastodon is one software of many using the ActivityPub "skeleton" code. If ActivityPub doesn't have QTs in its code and Mastodon adds a QT feature, any non-Mastodon software (or even server) has to work out how to interpret Mastodon's QTs. If it isn't Mastodon-compatible, QTs will just break. They might even break in a way that harms the person being QTed. And what if someone on another server boosts/reblogs that broken QT?
Also, since we on Mastodon can follow people who are using federated software that isn't Mastodon (e.g. instances/softwares that look and behave like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc), how does that work? Would people on Mastodon be able to QT people on not-Mastodon? How are the OPs going to feel about that? Would they even get notifications about it, since QTs aren't in the ActivityPub "skeleton" of federation?
And since we're a federation of separate servers even "within" Mastodon, there's also the question of how older/outdated Mastodon servers will handle incoming QTs. If you're on an older version of Mastodon and you follow someone on a newer instance and they QT someone, what would that look like? Maybe someone has intentionally chosen a fork of Mastodon with QTs turned off. Can people on other softwares QT them, and how would they feel about that?