
2025-09-20 11:53:25
Quote post functionality will arrive on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week.
It will be available more widely when Mastodon 4.5 is released in the near future.
#mastodon #quoteposts
Ok, as a test I'm gonna quote this post and then I'm gonna quote it a 2nd time but with an edit on it...thus I'll see how quote posts work...
GLaDOS: "THIS SENTENCE IS FALSE"
Wheatley: "sorry, I didn't catch that? Did the sentence go on a vacation, is that why it is false?"
#QuotePosts
"We all have our time machines, don't we? Those that take us back are memories... And those that carry us forward, are dreams."
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine
#quote
Looks like I'm going to have to ask an LLM what the point is of quote posts.
"What is the point of a quote post? What value does it bring me the social media user?"
The answer I got was facepalm...in short.
#QuotePosts #LLM
“In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.”
― Czesław Miłosz, Polish-American poet, prose writer, translator, and diplomat who won the 1980 Nobel Prize in Literature
Via Francine McKenna/The Dig
#quote
RE: https://mastodon.social/@shoppingtonz/114924658598703982
This quote posting though is gonna do narcissism a huge favor.
Oh my beautiful post, my beautiful post! I love you, I love you!
"The history of ideas is paved by constraints of language."
— Leo Buss
#quote HT to @…
Forget about my naysaying about being able to quote posts...
It's actually great!
I guess I'll turn it on!
My (#)MastodonSuperShield will still be effective with anyone not in my approved list won't spam my notifications...
#QuotePosts #Whitelist
"Man kann nicht nicht kommunizieren."
"One can't not communicate."
— Paul Watzlawick
#quote #philosophy
"Kunst gibt nicht das Sichtbare wieder, sondern macht sichtbar."
"Art doesn't reflect the visible, but makes visible."
— Paul Klee
#quote
Quote Posts ain't that bad! 👍
I'm already quoting myself and having a blast!
#QuotePosts #HavingABlast
"Ein schwacher Feind in der Festung ist fürchterlicher als
der stärkste von außen."
"A weak enemy inside the fort is more chilling than the strongest outside."
— Wilhelm Heinse
#quote
"Wer sich mit dem Zeitgeist verheiratet, ist morgen verwitwet."
("He who marries the Zeitgeist will be widowed tomorrow.")
-- Otto von Habsburg
#quote
"There is no middle ground between an arsonist and a firefighter."
— Marc Elias (@…)
#quote