@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[skua@mastodon.social]

@neil @Edent
Thanks.

I get in your post,
"Unknown notification type:
quote
".
And a touch info box. Screenshot below.

[berdario@mastodon.social]

@BrianSmith950 @Edent uh, this seems quite broken :/ (no clickable link to the original post :/)

I mean, I think that a quote should be equivalent to "link + preview". If the post is accessible/public/federation is working, the preview should work

If the preview isn't working, it should at least gracefulky degrade to a link (and if the author didn't mean this content to be read, it should then be non-public).

Was the mastodon.social impl of quoting a good idea?

https://hub.netzgemeinde.eu/item/0a1cdda5-eb1c-4a33-9574-ddd896977b4f

[berdario@mastodon.social]

@BrianSmith950 @Edent the above post that I linked, seems to argue that it wasn't... Because the fediverse already had quotes, and adding a separate permission systems to control quote seems to have just made interop difficult, without substantial benefits.

OTOH other people are arguing that the spec is well-thought

https://fietkau.social/@julian/115248350374022898

So, maybe these are only teething issues? 🤷

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@DamonHD @Edent yes, I *think* this is why. 4.5 isn't officially out yet, mastodon.social runs ahead of official releases. So nobody else has it yet unless they're doing the same.

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@DamonHD @Edent actually I'm wrong (as @edent's test quote just proved to me). Mastodon 4.4 has support for *displaying* quotes, so everyone has that, it's just that only 4.5 will have the ability to actually *create* them so that's not everywhere yet. Sorry for confusing things.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@floppy @DamonHD
I don't think that's right.

Looking at my profile here
https://k8s.social/@Edent@mastodon.social
I can see some quote posts, but not when quoting my bot.

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent @DamonHD jinx

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent

Here's what I saw:

[edent@mastodon.social]

@floppy I hope to create an infinite loop of quotes 😄

[pikesley@mastodon.me.uk]

@Floppy @Edent is this from the new Christopher Nolan movie?

[floppy@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent it'll be like that time someone posted something with a timestamp in the future and it spent days at the top of every single federated timeline.

[denny@boing.world]

@Edent Well that's meta. This is the first time I've been able to see the embedded post. But still not the initial post at the bottom of the pile. Wut.

[psfshr@mastodon.me.uk]

@Floppy @Edent The challenge is to see if you can replicate this....

https://oisinmoran.com/quinetweet

[cwilcox808@c.im]

@jannem
Mastodon released support for displaying quote posts well ahead of support for creating quote posts. I think your instance needs to be on Mastodon v4.5 or newer to create them.
@Edent

[briansmith950@mas.to]

@Edent
You managed to get Quote posts to work now 🙂

[jackeric@beige.party]

@Edent is this a recursive post?

https://beige.party/@jackeric/115282703110393959

[edent@mastodon.social]

@BrianSmith950 but not on posts from my not server. That's the problem I'm having.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@jackeric editing is cheating 😄

[xgebi@hachyderm.io]

@Edent nope, nič, nix

[dredmorbius@toot.cat]

@Edent FYI, the quoted posts reads as "post unavailable" for me (toot.cat).

I see it in the screenshot @BrianSmith950 responded with: https://mas.to/@BrianSmith950/115282687391218803