Reposting is inherently flawed.

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Why?

Yea, why?

Often fills the entire feed up with one note, it carries less signal than all other interactions, except reactions, and it's sometimes pointless on community relays, where everyone is looking at the same feed.

How do you discover new users to follow?

following.space

I believe reposts are needed for:

1) Blasting notes from new accounts out.

2) resurfacing old notes especially if there is no algo in play.

On a community level, point number 2 makes more sense.

Many issues can be solved with better rendering.

Ah, but reposts are an event kind, not a broadcasting mechanism. We should maybe just make broadcasting more prominent.

And you can actually "drag" notes onto our community relay by simply referencing it in the content of your note, as we fetch it from relays and render it as embedded.

Or highlight it. Not enough highlighting going on. Much better spec than reposts and quotes.

Highlighting isn't native in any client that I use.

It's a natural for GRW and Alexandria.

That will be an interesting switch.

You are the algorithm now

Yes, it‘s just too easy compared to formulating your own thought, digesting what you saw.

Or even simply highlighting the particular bit you found interesting or profound.

What does it mean, to repost a long article or a novel?

Nothing, really.

It‘s a stronger like button

I like the https://phanpy.social/ (mastodon) approach, reblogs are horizontal feeds

Oof, columns always triggers my ADD. 😂

I am just adding the reposters' icon to the reaction bar, at the bottom, and added a Trending feed, that includes the reposts in the weighting.

It takes a bit of getting used to, kind 6 and 16 or just 6?

Both, same problems.

Q-tagged quotes are better, but I prefer highlights. Overloading Kind 01 is so messy.

I repost a lot, so if you go to my feed, it looks like a repost bot because it's hard to find notes from myself.

reposting this

https://jumble.thecaptain.dev treats reposts the same as a reaction

Notedeck is quote only for now. That tiny bit of friction makes the re-post a bit more deliberate.

I'm a big fan of highlights. They're even more deliberate.

Highlights stand-alone are akin to re-posts.

Annotations (quote + highlight) are akin to quote notes.