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In case you missed it buried in the replies, I've done a guide to using Mastodon's new quoting feature:
➡️ https://fedi.tips/why-cant-i-quote-other-posts-in-mastodon
The guide covers how to quote, how to consent to being quoted, how to go back to single-click boosts etc and answers lots more quoting-related questions.
@FediTips I didn’t like that my quoted tweet and the post that used it, didn’t show up in my mentions. It felt dishonest. Not sure if that was a glitch or a feature but it was distasteful. “Here let me use & comment on your post but leave you out of the conversation.”
What are you using to post to Mastodon?
There should be an option that lets you choose if a post can be quoted or not quoted.
Quoted posts are only supposed to show if this option has been used to give permission to quote.
Also, if you are quoted it should show up in your notifications.
@FediTips I think I use the web app. That must be the issue. Thanks for the info. I’ll get it properly installed when I’m less exhausted LoL
Ahhh wait a minute... I just saw that your server hasn't updated to the current version of Mastodon that allows quoting.
However, it might have a general setting that allows other people to quote you, which was a temporary stop-gap when the developers first started testing quoting.
If the setting is there, it would be under ⚙️ Preferences > Other > Who can quote, you can switch it off by setting it to "just me" and then saving changes.
@FediTips Thanks, that's very helpful.
@FediTips Hello, do you know what happened with Audon space?
I don't directly but it hasn't been developed in two years. The source code is at https://codeberg.org/namekuji/audon if anyone wants to carry on development.
@FediTips Iam not a programmer so I can't start it again. Was a very good plus for mastodon. I hope a new team will run it again. Thanks for the information.
@FediTips Why should I quote a post?
You don't have to, and you don't have to be quoted, it's all optional 🙂
Many people find quoting useful beacuse it means people can see the post you're talking about without having to click through, and you can quote stuff without having to use your own character limit on copying what it says.
@FediTips maybe a stupid question but what is quoting?
Not a stupid question! 🙂
Quoting is where you make a post and you can see another post within it.
For example I'm going to quote your post within this reply:
@FediTips oh I see. I read your description but I am not able to do. Maybe it doesn’t work on an iPhone? I can’t select quote when I press the boost button.
What are you using to access Mastodon?
The feature is totally new, so many of the apps don't have it yet. However they should introduce it soon.
The web interface has it right now, as the web interface generally gets new features first. If you want to try it out you can log into your server's website at https://mastodon.world
@FediTips I use Metatext, mayb that’s the reason.
Ahh, Metatext hasn't been updated in several years I'm afraid.
You might want to switch to another app anyway, for example Ice Cubes, Mona or Ivory? These are all being maintained and updated.
Also you might want to follow @Feditext which is a community attempt to restart development on Metatext 🙂
Beamship is having a problem updating to 4.5 because of Ruby not updating.
I'm not a sys admin or developer so I'm not sure how to help directly, but you might want to check the instructions at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.5.0 and raise this as an issue on the Mastodon Github if there's no existing issue at https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues (I couldn't find an existing issue but I'm not 100% sure what to search for).
@FediTips same here, I remember updating ruby but haven't had a chance to find the process again, yet 😫
@FediTips Thank you! Especially for the information on how to go back to single-click boosts. 🖖🏾
@FediTips There is also quoting by pasting the link to the post which Mastodon treats as a quote (which can stay after deleting the link). This allows e.g. replying with a quote of another reply.
I hope there will be more software support for this kind of quotes, they are much more readable than Mastodon's handling of link previews.
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