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Most users don’t care about decentralization and having to select a server is a major turn off for most. Then, once you’re on, the feature that adds to Twitters
by dkobia 3y ago
Most users don’t care about decentralization and having to select a server is a major turn off for most. Then, once you’re on, the feature that adds to Twitters network effect - the “Quote Retweet” is deliberately left out of Mastodon [1], to make conversation more civil and muted.
[1] https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99662106175542726 https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/99662106175542726
- rsynnott 3y agoIt's coming: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/309 https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/309 But not for a while, as doing it the way the project wants to do it (requiring consent) will require ActivityPub extensions AIUI. Meanwhile, the community is reinventing it in various ways (this is also where quote-retweets came from on Twitter, btw; they didn't become a native feature for a long time)