OOOH BOY
so for those of y’all following this #quoot saga:
1. on a browser, if you want to quote a post, you have to use the reply button on the post. am providing an image of this thread to show how it’s working on the browser interface
2. this reply-quote feature isn’t found on the android app yet
3. they still refuse to use the oEmbed standard that allows for rendering a link into a full toot or activity pub object… 🧵
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115225922791811080
so, am testing the #quoot or #quotepost feature in the app and it’s working.
been using it by opening posts in a browser, so it’s nice that i can do it directly from the #android app. i almost exclusively toot from my tablet these days.
the thing is… this isn’t a quoted post à la Twitter.
all we had to do was to copy & paste a link to the tweet for it to appear embedded with the javascript & html magic of the Oembed protocol.
what @MastodonEngineering created here is something else… 🧵