Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
Mastodon is working to add the controversial 'quote posts' feature | TechCrunch
Mastodon, the decentralized alternative to X, is going to adopt a controversial feature from the platform formerly known as Twitter: quote posts. The
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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.
Nothing, but the effort might be one the driving forces of how one uses social media. And thus how it's communities begin to operate and feel.
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!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.
- ableism +1
- accessibility 0
Social media can be such trash.
Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.
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.