#quotepost · Bonfire at The Nexus Today

WHENEVER I POSTED A QT, i limited the text to 100 characters, always included the permalink to the source and name or handle of the writer.

AGAIN: because at their most basic function, a #quotePost is a form of bloquote and citation. you don’t just want to include the text or image of import but you also want to give ATTRIBUTION.

so, with a QT we were able to
- highlight interesting or important text
- establish a source and attribution for that text

🧵

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

BACK TO QUOTED TWEETS

taking snapshots of a tweet and posting them was a way of circumventing the blockquote conundrum with the 250 character limitation; BUT there was another limitation: CELL PHONE DATA PLANS.

there was no #Android when Twitter was first created. mobile posting wasn’t by way of an app. we posted via text messaging.

how much media you included in a mobile tweet was limited by your phone’s data plan. i certainly was, and that’s why my QT was optimized for texts… 🧵

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social replied · 2 days ago

WHENEVER I POSTED A QT, i limited the text to 100 characters, always included the permalink to the source and name or handle of the writer.

AGAIN: because at their most basic function, a #quotePost is a form of bloquote and citation. you don’t just want to include the text or image of import but you also want to give ATTRIBUTION.

so, with a QT we were able to
- highlight interesting or important text
- establish a source and attribution for that text

🧵

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social · 2 days ago

your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@blogdiva@mastodon.social · 2 months ago

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… 🧵