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#Mastodon's “quote protection” for “unauthorized” quotes is a farce. It won't show the preview AND not show you the link in the UI of the PWA, but you can trivially look at the JSON to find the link and follow it as any regular link. So can we please just stop the pretense that this is going to do anything to prevent abuse and show the link when the preview is not available, like with ANY OTHER LINK?#fediverse #quoteToot #QuoteToots #interop #WorldWideWeb

@oblomov I found a very small corner case where they’re useful /for me/, and admittedly of small or negative utility for the OP, when I want to use a post as the seed/context for a broader idea to my followers (where I might usually just boost my own reply) but where my comment simply isn’t useful to the OP (doesn’t answer the OP question, as an example)In general, though, boosting my own comment in addition to the OP works better