Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot? Besides the effort of course.

[–] Trumble@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 days ago

Nothing, but the effort might be one the driving forces of how one uses social media. And thus how it's communities begin to operate and feel.

[–] pseudo@jlai.lu 2 points 6 days ago

That could make possible the repost on Lemmy and that's a big deal!
Today to repost, you boost and you can't add anything else to the original toot like the mention of a lemmy community to allow fediversion of the content. This new feature might make it possible. I can't wait!

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

what’s stopping me from just screenshoting

Images of text? Accessibility.

So, another sacrifice at the altar of social media to deliberately break a straightforward feature at the expense of people who need accessibility.

ableism +1
accessibility 0

Social media can be such trash.

[–] steve_awesome@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Atleast mastodon supports image descriptions pretty well, so it would be possible to make the posted screenshot accessible.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Possible, unlikely, worse. The most accessible content is native text with the full content structure of the original. Quoting without compromises & feeble games would be better.