Have been on Mastodon for almost nine months now, and I'm still missing the ability to quote-boost. There are so many times I want to add some context to a post before boosting it to my followers. Useful facility.

#Mastodon #QuoteBoosting

I think it is often the case that people dramatically underestimate the amount of work it takes to get a nontrivial change that someone is passionate about both done and merged upstream

For example, as a thought experiment, let's say I have an idea for an implementation around #QuoteBoosting / #QuoteReToots. What do I have to do to get it merged into #mastodon?

I can almost see the horde of people typing now "BUT QUOTE BOOSTING IS A BAD IDEA!!!!!!!"

Thank you for proving my point.

@fedora

@thomasfuchs My reaction to all the reply guys that come here to tell you about all the various apps that support #quoteboosting, or to explain why mastodon does not support it natively.

We are against #quoteBoosting or #quoteTooting, or whatever. Fediverse grew in popularity because it was different. It was not a #timeSink either.

Not feeling the pressure to add to the conversation when sharing was a breath of fresh air for us, moving to fedi.

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@CesFelber
This is a example of when being able to #QuoteBoost would be helpful. You would have been able to boost the post with your own note explaining your reason for boosting. Without being able to annotate your boost people are drawing their own conclusions. Personally I would use the experience to encourage discussion of #QuoteBoosting and #Defederating

personally I'd love quote boosting to become a thing on Mastodon, it'd make meta-discussion about topics way easier. Also makes it easier to share your thoughts and why you think something when boosting a toot.

#QuoteToots #QuoteBoosting

I didn’t mind it’s absence at first, but now I’m starting to think quote-boosting might improve the Mastodon experience. Without that added context, and with boosting being so important, my timeline here often feels like a random succession of boosts. Knowing why someone I followed wanted to boost a particular post would add to my sense of interaction with them, and would lead to discussion. What do you think?

#QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuoteBoosting #QT

The Mastodon prejudice against #QuoteBoosting is basically a form of #TechSolutionism: 'If we don't have it in the UI toolkit, the problem we had with it won't happen.'

The Mastodon prejudice against #QuoteBoosting is basically a form of #TechSolutionism: 'If we don't have it in the UI toolkit, the problem we had with it won't happen.'

Uggghhhh, if I see one more person make this mistake on #QuoteBoosting I'm going to walk into the sea.

Suffice it to say that there are three _extremely orthogonal_ concerns and this conflates two of them and ignores the third.

Concern 1: How do I keep others from reading or sharing this content.

Concern 2: How do I prevent abuse from people engaging in sharing or reading this content?

Concern 3: How do I find out where things went wrong so that I can better protect myself in the future?