RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115225922791811080
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115225922791811080
so, am testing the #quoot or #quotepost feature in the app and it’s working.
been using it by opening posts in a browser, so it’s nice that i can do it directly from the #android app. i almost exclusively toot from my tablet these days.
the thing is… this isn’t a quoted post à la Twitter.
all we had to do was to copy & paste a link to the tweet for it to appear embedded with the javascript & html magic of the Oembed protocol.
what @MastodonEngineering created here is something else… 🧵
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115225922791811080
so, am testing the #quoot or #quotepost feature in the app and it’s working.
been using it by opening posts in a browser, so it’s nice that i can do it directly from the #android app. i almost exclusively toot from my tablet these days.
the thing is… this isn’t a quoted post à la Twitter.
all we had to do was to copy & paste a link to the tweet for it to appear embedded with the javascript & html magic of the Oembed protocol.
what @MastodonEngineering created here is something else… 🧵
as an early adopter and with the 250 character limitation, i was part of a cohort of people pushing the boundaries on how much meaning ―not just information, but meaning― i could pack into a tweet.
in digital anthropology this is called a folksonomy and every single Twitter feature came out of how people like me were using the platform to create meaning.
the first example of this was the HASHTAG. its “invention” is attribited to Chris Messina, but it’s use was created in community… 🧵
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as an early adopter and with the 250 character limitation, i was part of a cohort of people pushing the boundaries on how much meaning ―not just information, but meaning― i could pack into a tweet.
in digital anthropology this is called a folksonomy and every single Twitter feature came out of how people like me were using the platform to create meaning.
the first example of this was the HASHTAG. its “invention” is attribited to Chris Messina, but it’s use was created in community… 🧵
everything that made Twitter greate was a folksonomy ―how users, not engineers, pushed the platform’s boundaries by creating new ways of writing in the absence of a feature.
there are no Twemojis wihtout the new EMOTICONS we created because
or 
weren’t enough.here’s some examples i still have them in my tricked out keyboard:
＼(｀0´)／
(」ﾟﾛﾟ)｣NOOOooooo
(╯‵□′)╯BOOM！•••*～●
(•_•)
ಠಿ_ಠ
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
(╭ರ_•́)
🧵
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everything that made Twitter greate was a folksonomy ―how users, not engineers, pushed the platform’s boundaries by creating new ways of writing in the absence of a feature.
there are no Twemojis wihtout the new EMOTICONS we created because
or weren’t enough.here’s some examples i still have them in my tricked out keyboard:
＼(｀0´)／
(」ﾟﾛﾟ)｣NOOOooooo
(╯‵□′)╯BOOM！•••*～●
(•_•)
ಠಿ_ಠ
(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻
ㄟ(ツ)ㄏ
(╭ರ_•́)
🧵
so, one of the things you have to keep in mind is that Twitter was created by the people who first founded Blogger/Blogspot. that’s why the generic for that kind of site ―which includes #Mastodon― is “microblog”.
tweeting and tooting is microblogging.
blogging is not just a form of publishing online, but of writing; of transforming into new digital formats the conventional forms of writing and publishing on the media of paper.
which means: QUOTED POSTS ARE MICROBLOGGING BLOCKQUOTES
🧵
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