Mastodon is officially rolling out quote posts. Starting next week, you’ll see an option to quote another user by selecting the repost — or “boost” — button, allowing you to add your thoughts to someone else’s post.

The decentralized platform initially planned not to launch quote posts over concerns that they could be used for harassment or to take someone out of context. Mastodon reversed this decision in February, saying a lack of quote posts might discourage people from joining the fediverse.

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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It is likely most other software will be able to consume them.

This highlights what I believe to be a poor choice in the design of BlueSky's AT Protocol; ActivityPub software is usually liberal in what it accepts and displays, while ATProto enforces schemas ("lexicon").

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It usually comes down to a difference in vision, the fediverses schtick is that you can follow Reddit from Twitter or whatever, whereas on atproto you use a different appview for different formats, like frontpage.fyi for links, and whtwnd.net for blogging.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It's a difference in vision, but I don't like BlueSky's vision here.

Combining the Reddit-like and Twitter-like experiences in one place is a little awkward, but following a blog or a Youtube-like from a Twitter-like isn't. Having the option to switch to a more optimal appview is great, but realistically a lot more people would follow a blog from BlueSky than would use their BlueSky identity to sign into WhiteWind.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well, it's a bit more than just using their identity to sign in, data is also stored on their PDS.

It's entirely possible to make a server that accepts several different lexicons, wafrn plans on doing this for articles.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but its not a fault of the protocol itself. You could easily choose to discard article or note objects on ActivityPub.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.