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Mastodon users can post to the Threadiverse by tagging a community, but since we don’t have “quoted boosts”/quote posts, there’s no way of including an existing thread or post when doing so.

For sure! But considering Mastodon has most of the content that would be quote posted this way and most of the users who would be subject to it, and they are working on it (at their own pace), I think it would be tactile to see how it is implemented in Mastodon first and then proceed from that.

It could for example be that Mastodon users will be able to opt out of quote posts in general or in specific posts. If so, this should be respected in other implementations as well. And in general, it’s just nice to have things consistent, and when it’s taking the Mastodon team so long to implement I suspect it’s because they’re devoted to making sure they do it right. :)

Hopefully whenever mastodon gets quote posts we’ll see something similar pop up over here.

I personally like being able to easily change the colour theme, but it’s of course entirely optional. Each to their own.

If you press the cog in the top right corner you can choose between six different themes, as well as moving the sidebar around, text size, and a bunch of other tweaks. :)

It has gotten really, really good for photography. There’s a bunch of incredible photographers posting their stuff on the Fediverse these days, and they enjoy the appeal of it that it’s closer to what Instagram was before it became an influencer hub.

As for random cats and dogs, I guess some people enjoy that as well.

I wouldn’t say mbin is awkward to use, but microblogging is included as a bit of a second thought. It’s still nice to be able to communicate with the fediverse at large.

PieFed feels faster than the others to me. It has good support for various content (like peertube channels), allows for content filtering with keywords, has combined communities, and a lot of other clever stuff.

As one cannot view Twitter without an account there, I sort of tend to assume everybody have left it by now. It’s crazy to me that this is not the case.

I feel like this is part of what makes @[email protected] one of the most important fediverse projects at the moment - it aims to keep everyone from having to do the same, overly complicated job of activitypub integration over and over and over again.

It’s frustration that nobody wants to dig into old code, but I get frustrated having to re-work my own code from a year ago. So I guess I sympathize.

I think often people find it easier to write their own code than to make changes to other people’s projects, so it’s not necessarily very easy to change the Bluesky app to work with the Mastodon API rather than the Bluesky one.

That said, I don’t think it’s a dumb idea. Bluesky has a lot of money to pump into UX development, so making sure Mastodon users could benefit from this wouldn’t be a bad thing. Personally I am perfectly happy with the alternatives already out there (Phanpy is better than anything else that has ever existed), but it’s all about choice. :)