a little masto trick:

mastodon.gamedev.place/@lritte

don't click on this URL to read its contents - if you're not on the same server, you can't fav or reply.

instead, click-right, select "Copy link address", then paste the URL in the "Search or paste URL" field of your website.

yes, this should totally be a built-in feature.

@lritter oh, you mean rewriting links to instances to automatically open in the web ui, yeah that's possible but it's also almost a QRT which Mastodon doesn't implement for a reason

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@lritter ah sorry, quote retweet, it's the feature on Twitter where a tweet link in a tweet will get embedded under it, it's a big harassment vector

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@noiob anything can be a big harassment vector if you're trying hard enough. ;-)

in any case, i can quote-retweet already right now, it just doesn't look very good, and has hoops but they can all be manually overcome. if the app doesn't solve it, then users could still install browser extensions to get it done. life... finds a way

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