Today for #projects: a Twitter thread!
(Not even going to apologize for promoting the bird site with this one, I'm really proud of it)
I absolutely loved Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Who knew what the world really needed in 2018 was another Spider-Man movie?
Then I noticed the creative team behind it were on Twitter, and were posting delicious little behind-the-scenes snippets
So I started collecting them in a thread, which I ended up running for almost a year! https://twitter.com/simonw/status/1077737871602110466
This is the single biggest thing I'm going to miss about not having quote tweets on Mastodon: building threads like this was such an amazing curation mechanism for tying together brilliant content from a wide range of different sources
If you haven't seen the movie yet I could not recommend it higher - they beat Pixar for best animated feature that year, which is no small achievement
I think it raised the bar for the entire animation industry
@simon btw, I'm optimistic about QTs in masto because QT is a definition of a "desired path feature".
Twitter users started writing "QT <link> <text>" and then the devs added it as a type of retweet.
Perhaps, we can do even better and parse the links to references into preview cards? Perhaps it's doable at frontend even?
Nonetheless, we can start writing "QT" and see where it'll go.
@jonn @simon@fedi.simonwillison.net QOTO renders "QT: url` as a quote tweet and has a button for quote tweeting but unless Mastodon were to add such feature, it's unlikely that any mobile apps will render it in such way and they may at best show what the link is by checking open graph meta attributes on the page.
And I feel it's unlikely Mastodon will add this since they made an explicit choice not to in the past...
@JakubKuczys nice!
I hope that if people are aware of this (I assume I can install #qoto patchset on my instance), and will start using it, then #mastodon people will change their opinion.