Quote posts also work exactly the same as they do on twitter.
You get a whole post for your own commentary and the post you're quote-posting appears nested inside your post.
When they're blank-quoted, people don't add commentary, they're just nesting the post they're sharing inside their own post.
You get a whole post for your own commentary and the post you're quote-posting appears nested inside your post.
When they're blank-quoted, people don't add commentary, they're just nesting the post they're sharing inside their own post.
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(And then delete them after ~20 minutes)
It's a way of taking credit for someone else's creations, etc, without putting in any effort for yourself. ... and hopefully drawing people to your account and your content rather than the original creator.
It's lazier than content scraping but has the same intent.
1) a normal quote post explaining what I'm doing.
2) a repost
3) a blank quote post
If you come here to say it is ableist to demand that people put content in their quote-posting, I am going to give you a massive death glare, as a fellow disabled person.
Repost! That's what reposting is for.
If you are quote-posting, say something.
But you know?
Disability is not an excuse to be rude to people.
If you don't have the spoons to attribute (or add context to) the things you post, do you have spoons for posting??
Thanks again for taking the time to explain. 😁
It IS a strange thing for Bluesky to enable.
Twitter reverted quote posts to reposts if they were blank.
... people often added "."