Still prevents people from jumping on each other using quote posts the way they did back on twitter. They can already take screenshots, this hasn’t been a big problem, and it’s certainly not a problem introduced by this update.
What exactly makes it “horrible” in your eyes? What would you have done differently?
It defeats the point of quote posts. Why would I quote someone if they can render my whole post dead by removing the context if they don’t like what I said? It effectively makes only “acceptable” positive and praising quote posts to be allowed.
I think people who are not comfortable to be quoted should restrain from public posting in general or quote posting should be instance level flag instead of user toggle to not ruin quote posts for everyone while giving those people an option to opt out.
Take Lemmy or PieFed. Analogous example would be if someone made a comment on a post and then had back and forth with another person. But the person who made the first comment had ability to hide all the other responses in the thread to hide the context of that discussion.
Quotes can be used for more than just dunking, you know. I think it’s good to put up just a little bit of friction to minimize that kind of usage. But if you really, really, really just want to dunk on someone, you already said that you can use screenshots for that, so there you go.
Still prevents people from jumping on each other using quote posts the way they did back on twitter. They can already take screenshots, this hasn’t been a big problem, and it’s certainly not a problem introduced by this update.
What exactly makes it “horrible” in your eyes? What would you have done differently?
It defeats the point of quote posts. Why would I quote someone if they can render my whole post dead by removing the context if they don’t like what I said? It effectively makes only “acceptable” positive and praising quote posts to be allowed.
I think people who are not comfortable to be quoted should restrain from public posting in general or quote posting should be instance level flag instead of user toggle to not ruin quote posts for everyone while giving those people an option to opt out.
Take Lemmy or PieFed. Analogous example would be if someone made a comment on a post and then had back and forth with another person. But the person who made the first comment had ability to hide all the other responses in the thread to hide the context of that discussion.
Quotes can be used for more than just dunking, you know. I think it’s good to put up just a little bit of friction to minimize that kind of usage. But if you really, really, really just want to dunk on someone, you already said that you can use screenshots for that, so there you go.
So back to my original comment, why does this feature exist in this horrible implementation?
I don’t much care for microblogging, but it seems that eveyone would be better without this useless addition.
Can you not think of a single other use case for quotes besides dunking? Is that all you think it ever could be for?
Sounds like a pretty toxic take.