Jakob Rosin

10 months ago

Jakob Rosin
10 months ago

We need a new accessible IM app soon. Help! WHatsapp has been rather meta free so far, but its about to become a whatscrapp mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/11386…

TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)

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Andre Louis

in reply to Jakob Rosin 10 months ago

Absolutely broken my mastodon experience here because my client doesn't support threaded posts, so I have to now open the original post on the web just to see the post that probably links to another post.
This is the epitome of why I hate quote-posting. It's not twitter. Twitter's dead.

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Jakob Rosin

in reply to Andre Louis 10 months ago

I’m seeing it used quite a lot lately. The “re:last” post situation is equally frustrating, as in some cases, the boost which was re lasted can be far away or filtered out.

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miki

in reply to Jakob Rosin 10 months ago

The problem with last boost is that clients only show boosts once per x hours, so if somebody else boosted it recently, you have no chance of seeing it.

Quoting is a lot less annoying, because even if it isn't supported natively by your client (it isn't by mine), you can just click a link and you see what the post is about.

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Andre Louis

in reply to miki 10 months ago

@miki Going to a website that I'd not have to go to, if the text was... Just you know, there already, I'm far less likely to read it. Equally, re last: If you don't see it, you're not going to read it either. Admittedly nobody wins, but assuming you do see it because it was properly reshared, you'll know whether you want to continue clicking further.
It's not perfect.

@miki

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Sukil Etxenike

in reply to Andre Louis 10 months ago

@FreakyFwoof @miki I don't know which one I find more infuriating between these. In re last you have exactly the same problems you (Andre) outline in some other ramification here (start of another thread, no mention of original) with the added bonus that you sometimes have to go to the profile of the guy to know what the hell they're commenting on because there is no context at all. Scrap that, I do find re last more infuriating.

@miki @Andre Louis

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Andre Louis

in reply to Jakob Rosin 10 months ago

Yep, but quote-posting is unofficial, and I reiterate. Mastodon specifically is *not* twitter. Any client that supports it is not adhering to standards. There are forks that do support it, but Mastodon specifically doesn't. Talked about this time and time and time again, so won't, but seriously, bad.
No proper attribution when replies come in, IE: original poster is not mentioned, starts a new thread etc, etc.

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miki

in reply to Andre Louis 10 months ago

@FreakyFwoof and #lastBoost has exactly the same problems.

Another option is "reply to thread and boost the reply", which worked on Twitter, no idea if it does the correct thing here.

#lastboost @Andre Louis

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miki

Unknown parent 10 months ago

@Void_wanderer @sukiletxe @FreakyFwoof A normal reply isn't visible to your followers unless they also follow the person you're replying to.

On Twitter, you could get around that by retweeting the reply, not sure if this works here.

@Sukil Etxenike @Andre Louis

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