I'm trying to decide how much of "quote posts" I want to support in Ktistec.

I'm trying to decide how much of "quote posts" I want to support in Ktistec. On one hand, it's not trivial functionality, and I really do question how much extra value someone's comments on someone else's post will add to the Fediverse. On the other hand, I dunno... assuming Mastodon limits abuse by enforcing quoting rules, Ktistec could probably just follow along and display quoted posts. Is there any value in just that?

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toddsundsted@epiktistes.com NodeBB has already added in logic to handle the quote post fallback (a "RE: " is added to every quote post) because it interferes with automatic title generation.

I think displaying them is probably the easier half. Publishing them is another matter altogether!

@toddsundsted

To me, there is a user-experience (UX) between quote-posts versus comments.

A comment is a message intended to be towards the person you are replying to.

A quote-post is a message intended to be towards your followers (in addition to the person you are quote-posting).

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@toddsundsted

Having said that — quote-posts existed on the Fediverse years before Mastodon implemented them. For example, Misskey and its forks have had quote-posts for years! (Other Fediverse software, too.)

And, they work differently than Mastodon-style quote-posts.

So, if you wanted to support quote-posts, you would also have to (explicitly or implicitly) decide on what style of quote-post to support. Mastodon-style? Misskey-style? Etc?