Brutkey

A-nom-nom-nom-aly BSC SSC
@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party

@Valdus@infosec.exchange @j_j@muenchen.social @FediTips@social.growyourown.services

I'd be more concerned about people quoting posts if the poster doesn't want them to be. So a setting from the posters side that disables their posts being quoted would be essential.

Otherwise the feature is ripe for abuse.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @Valdus@infosec.exchange @j_j@muenchen.social

Quoting can only happen if the author of the post has given permission to be quoted for that specific post.

Each post has its own quoting permission setting.

Droppie
@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @Valdus@infosec.exchange @Anomnomnomaly@beige.party @j_j@muenchen.social you really should keep emphasising that words such as you've written here are not universal as noobs might presume, & in fact pertain only within Masto... whereas all users of many non-Masto instances can still quote-post Masto posts til the cows come home, regardless of a Masto user's individual setting.

i know that you know this, but i keep reading posts like this one where that important distinction is omitted, such that it will prolly accidentally mislead noobs.

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone

The question was about the new feature in Mastodon, I was trying to answer about that feature.

Droppie
@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone

@FediTips@social.growyourown.services yes i understand, but the trouble is that given the nature of fedi & how threads form from individual posts, at any point a reader might stumble onto a thread via an individual post without understanding it's a thread, thus treating the specific post as authoritatively global.

given the nature of your content here, & how often PITA-peeps like me stick their noses in, wouldn't the difficulty be entirely obviated if you made a habit of always attaching a tag to every post that is Masto-specific, saying something like #ThisIsOnlyMastoSpecificNOTAllFediverse or similar?

Fedi.Tips
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services

@MsDropbear42@blahaj.zone

The nature of anything public on the internet is that it may be interpreted and displayed in all sorts of different ways by different platforms and software.

At the same time, I'm trying to keep answers simple so that they are easy to understand.

I'm trying to strike a balance between being comprehensive of every possible context and being comprehensible to new people.

I was just earlier today having to simplify one of the fedi.tips guides because it covered too many contexts.