vampiress ,
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raptor85 ,
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@vampiress unrelated but also kinda related note, I REALLY wish mastodon would be smart enough to tell activitypub links and would strip links like that to properly display from my instance instead of opening up a new tab to the permanent link on another instance, which is broken and doesn't display properly due to javascript....

I have very few gripes with mastodon as a whole but "copy link to this post" taking you to another instance SUCKS.

vampiress OP ,
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@raptor85 Oh, from my 'quote post'?

Many clients do that naturally and embed them.

This is what it looks like on my client:

raptor85 ,
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@vampiress on the web client it just forms a direct link to that post on THEIR instance (the same link you get when you copy permanent link), which opens in a new tab and displays nothing without accepting stuff on their page first.

vampiress OP ,
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@raptor85 Yeah the web client sucks.

raptor85 ,
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@vampiress I actually like the web client for everything but this, I've tried all the downloadable client's but they're all kinda awful, none of them let you keep multiple timelines/tags visible, they either shove them all into one or you have to click to view each one separately.

loke ,
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@vampiress that was so well phrased. I'm actually sad that most young people will not have the opportunity to be excited about computing.

In fact, the only time I saw one of my kids being fascinated by technology when they were little was when I was playing around with a C64 and they learned about printing text in different colours.

vampiress OP ,
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@loke I sat a friend of mine (26? 27? I think?) down in front of a C64 with an Usborne book of BASIC programs.

She was absolutely enthralled and amazed. She otherwise doesn't care about computers.

They're a vehicle for playing games on, and that's it. But this excited her.

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