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Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 13 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot? Besides the effort of course.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    That could make possible the repost on Lemmy and that's a big deal!
    Today to repost, you boost and you can't add anything else to the original toot like the mention of a lemmy community to allow fediversion of the content. This new feature might make it possible. I can't wait!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (2 children)

    what’s stopping me from just screenshoting

    Images of text? Accessibility.

    So, another sacrifice at the altar of social media to deliberately break a straightforward feature at the expense of people who need accessibility.

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    Social media can be such trash.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    Possible, unlikely, worse. The most accessible content is native text with the full content structure of the original. Quoting without compromises & feeble games would be better.

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