Quote posting is already available on Misskey, Friendica, and Akkoma.
Threads also has that feature, and they use the same standard as Misskey.
Even Mastodon clients like Icecubes and Phanpy do quite posting.
At this point, it makes no sense to wait on Mastodon to implement features.
Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.
Not bad.
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
Here’s the link:
https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/Ar1k52vf54XylLFsJM
To answer your question, Bookface is an alternative—and better—UI for Friendica. And Friendica is essentially a federated alternative to Facebook.
You don't need to wait on Mastodon to do it.
Obviously, I'm not talking about you specifically -- Threadiverse devs generally.
For example, some of this functionality already exists on Friendica.
Right now, you can crosspost to a Friendica group by mentioning the group actor handle (ex: @[email protected]. And because Friendica supports quoted boosts, you can boost to a Friendica group through this method.
Lemmy could easily support this feature.
It really would be so much easier to just boost Mastodon posts into a Lemmy community.
Cults aren’t isolated by others. They self-isolate.
People need to know this feature exists and that it’s a good thing.
On the Fediverse, no admin decides anything a user does. If you don’t like your server, you can just walk over to another one. Most software even makes account migration between servers super easy.
Or if you don’t trust admins at all—and I don’t—you can run your own server and federate with who you please.
This is not Reddit. Admins don’t hold ultimate power of what does or does not get seen. However, you do—and you can mute, block, or defederate as you see fit.
Well, you seem to be upset that people are able to block entire instances. That’s just a weird stance for an anarchist to have.
At a certain point, developers need to ignore the HOA.