This post cannot be displayed as the original author does not allow it to be quoted.

Don't worry, when we upgrade mastodon it will just say "Post unavailable" instead. MUCH BETTER!

reminder that quote toots have been working in other fediverse software for years and years without this bullshit

@gildilinie yeah, now I (an akkoma user) have to put extra effort into copying and pasting the link separately into the quote post just so that Mastodon't users can see it too

@LunaDragofelis yeah akkoma. I couldn't remember the fucking name.

@gildilinie Misskey forks also have functional quotes. And they're fully compatible with Akkoma's quotes. It's only Mastodon that needed a special sausage.

@gildilinie as far as I know, no.

Won't stop me from choosing Akkoma for my instance (once I finally get to renting a VPS and setting it up). If the database is fried I'll just make a new instance.

@gildilinie @LunaDragofelis it’s been fine for us forgor when we started hosting akkoma

@gildilinie I never understood what the problem was, but I didn't want to be one of those "I don't see it therefore it doesn't exist" people. :-P

@woozle it just says "This post cannot be displayed as the original author does not allow it to be quoted." or "Post unavailable" on all quote posts

@gildilinie I mean, the problem people were* having with the idea of quote-boosts, which resulted in it only being implented years after other fedi software had it and with the option to opt-out enabled by default (thus resulting in awkwardness when other fedi software which never had a problem with it doesn't check those permissions and lets you quoost stuff regardless).

(* are they still? I've heard remarkably little protest since it was implemented...)

@woozle oh i understand that view, that it promotes toxicity. but this opt-out by default shit is just garboleum