To anyone else who finds my Bridgy posts "unengaging, peeving, and uninteresting," please read my reply below the quoted post.

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@julian Oh. Thank you. But what about my Bsky posts showing up here in full?

I'm not worried about my Mastodon posts showing up there.

@quillmatiq @evan @anewsocial

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@julian Or is that what you were referring to? I'm so sorry I'm not grasping this, my bad.

@quillmatiq @evan @anewsocial

[julian@fietkau.social]

@GottaLaff I'm looking at the person's screenshot which shows your Bluesky posts bridged to the fediverse. Most of them are quote posts. Your own text in them is bridged fine, it's only the quoted posts that are shown as links instead of embeds. Mastodon quote posts need a consent flag that Bridgy Fed doesn't yet provide.

Notably, even if Bridgy Fed adds the feature, it will only show quoted posts of accounts who have also opted in. This is all a bit complicated!

@quillmatiq @evan @anewsocial

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@julian Oh!! Well that helps to clarify some. Thank you so much.

@quillmatiq @evan @anewsocial

[lovegraphs@mastodon.social]

@GottaLaff I get the same view and find it a useful way to get links to stories I wouldn't otherwise see. Thank you for doing that. Plus there is also one cute dog.

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@lovegraphs Aww, Hamilton!! Thank you!

[jpsays@mastodon.social]

@julian

I do wish, from the mastodon side, I knew whether there was something quoted or not.

I built a manual tool that can tell me (it also builds a blob of the quoted post that I can paste back to mastodon), but opening every bridged post in that tool when text doesn't make sense gets a bit old.

(Context note: I use tusky for mastodon most of the time and it doesn't have or show the "RE:" link that the mastodon web client shows.)

I have been subscribed to that github issue a while too.

[julian@fietkau.social]

@jpsays Hmm, I'm on the latest Tusky on mobile and I'm seeing the quote placeholder links. Would be a Tusky bug otherwise!

[jpsays@mastodon.social]

@julian Interesting. Thank you.

…

I was writing a reply, and in all honesty went to check versions only to find I’m using “Tusker” and realized I lost track of which client I was using. My bad.

I get your point on it being a client implementation.

[julian@fietkau.social]

@jpsays If you'd like to raise a bug with them, the issue is that the ".quote-inline" microformat (which contains the placeholder link) must only be hidden when there actually is a quote attached to the post.

They're in good company, this bug was originally in the Mastodon web interface too!

[pdiff1@mastodon.sdf.org]

@GottaLaff @gghocket Obviously not your issue, but you should know why response here to some of your posts is minimal. We still look for your posts though!!

[gghocket@mastodon.world]

@pdiff1 @GottaLaff

Definitely not your issue Laffy, my only gripes are with Bsky quirks but I'm totally glad you're there for us. Thank you again!

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@gghocket Same. Thank you.

@pdiff1 I never once suggested that my issue was that "response here to some of [my] posts is minimal."

I don't know where you got that idea from.

My issue is people making demands that I change the way I post to suit their needs, when I have no control over the way my posts show up.

[gottalaff@mstdn.social]

@gghocket @pdiff1 Sorry, I said that wrong. You said it was not my issue. I meant to say that I've never even wondered why the response is minimal, nor have I even noticed.