Weirdness in (mastodon) quote posts

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Lacking time to investigate microblog issues, just dropping this off. Perhaps I have more time later..

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Related toot: https://social.coop/@smallcircles/116446957927306132

I now see that more toots have a quote that shouldn’t be there. During my typing the thread became longer than intended, and I copied the quote link to the next toot, to remove it later. But the quote remained. Yet not correctable in Edit mode, as it isn’t there in text, and there’s no delete button on the quote preview box.

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This is purely a Mastodon thing. The Mastodon composer inserts a quote when you paste a link to something that resolves to a Mastodon “Status”, and when rendering a post with a Mastodon “quote”, Mastodon will hide the link so that you don’t see both a link and a quote box.

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Thought so, yes. Perhaps I’ll file an issue, but I suspect one will already exist.