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Kate Bowles

Here’s the contrast: Toot! vs Ice Cubes.

Update: scroll down the thread and you’ll see what @tootapp has planned, which is great news from a very cute app.

Ice Cubes screen shot shows that the commentary text comes above the quoted toot which is embedded in a lightly shaded box including the name of the person and time of posting.

Toot! app screenshot showing that a quote boost starts with a link to the original toot as “RE: link etc” which means you have to click on the link to see what’s going on, and get more details about person and time.

Kate Bowles

@kate@aus.social replied · last week

Here’s the link to the post that shows what @tootapp has in mind for #QuoteToots display.

https://theblower.au/@david/115516064926608504

Kate Bowles

@kate@aus.social · last week

Kate Bowles

@kate@aus.social · last week

So #QuoteToots have come to @IceCubesApp and display beautifully, but not yet to Toot! app where they also don’t really display in a functional way. It’s often this way.

RE: https://aus.social/@kate/115515919914605595

It’s worth remembering that your #QuoteToots may not yet display for others in the way you expect. The app culture is always catching up. But honestly @IceCubesApp has done a nice job.

Kate Bowles

@kate@aus.social · last week

So #QuoteToots have come to @IceCubesApp and display beautifully, but not yet to Toot! app where they also don’t really display in a functional way. It’s often this way.

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Cadu Silva :verifiedcat:

@cadusilva@bolha.one · 2 weeks ago

Mastodon 4.5 is set to launch this week and there's something you should know:

All you need to quote a toot is to paste the link of said toot. Or, of course, you can use the boost button and select "Quote".

But pasting a link also works, automatically. If the author allows to be quoted, the toot will appear in the compose field. If not, it'll be just a simple, plain link.

In the end, both paths lead to the same destination: to quote a toot. And, if the author allows quotes, this will generate a notification to them.

So it's important to know that this also works with private mentions, aka DMs.

Even if you don't mention the author's profile (user@instance.tld), if you simply paste a link to their post, and they allow quotes, they will be notified.

If they don't allow quotes, it'll be just a simple and plain link, and no notification will be sent to them.

So be careful not to end up mentioning someone in a DM without the intention of doing so.

They'll be able to see the DM content where the link was pasted, as if you'd have mentioned them explicitly. But it was just a quoted toot.

Let's see what they say about this: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/discussions/36685

#Mastodon #MastoAdmin #QuoteToots

GitHub

Quote toots and private mentions · mastodon mastodon · Discussion #36685

Hello there, I just found out something about the new quote posts feature that may lead to unintended outcomes and confusion. If one pastes in a private mention (DM) a link to a toot that is allowe...

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Cadu Silva :verifiedcat:

@cadusilva@bolha.one · 2 weeks ago

There are now two pull requests proposing changes to quote toots inside private mentions (DM).

When composing a DM, pasting a link will not create a quote: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36690
When composing a DM, it'll not be sent if it quotes a toot from someone not mentioned: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/pull/36689

If approved, the changes will be merged into Mastodon's source code.