Configurable handling of quote tweets

[bajtos]

The issue #16 proposed to include the full text of the quoted tweet in the Mastodon post, the feature was implemented by 41946d1 and following commits.

In #14, I proposed a different handling of quote tweets:

1. The toot contains only the text I wrote in my tweet.
2. The toot links to the quoted status (tweet)

Consider the following quote tweet: https://twitter.com/bajtos/status/1252469674681544704

At the moment, cargo run -- -n prints the following item:

Posting to Mastodon: LoopBack 4 depends on AJV to perform validations too! Please consider supporting AJV maintenance and development by a donation 🙏 Every little helps!

QT fastifyjs: If you can validate requests in Fastify is thanks to this fantastic project, who is now asking for support.
If you would like to make a donation, please consider it :)
https://github.com/epoberezkin/ajv#please-sponsor-ajv
#opensource #sustainability

What I would like to see instead (conceptually, I am not sure how attachments/links work in Mastodon):

Posting to Mastodon: LoopBack 4 depends on AJV to perform validations too! Please consider supporting AJV maintenance and development by a donation 🙏 Every little helps!
https://twitter.com/fastifyjs/status/1252343103958118402

Can we find a good way how to make this behavior configurable by the user?

[bajtos]

An edge case to consider:

When quoting my own tweet that was synced to Mastodon, the post for the quote tweet should link to the Mastodon post, not the original Twitter post. Example: https://twitter.com/bajtos/status/1255759378424254465

[bajtos]

Continuing the discussion from #18:

What would we call that option? embed_quote_tweets = true? Then you could set that option to false to have tweet links again.

Maybe embed_quoted_tweets, because the option is controlling what happens to the text of the quoted tweet (e.g. the target status), not the quote tweet (the retweet-like status).

[klausi]

yep, embed_quoted_tweets sounds good!

should it be an option under Mastodon or Twitter? I'm thinking Mastodon because that is where the embedding happens?

[defaultxr]

Just to chime in regarding the feature suggested in #18 (since this seems to be the issue for it now) - I personally would want an option to disable syncing quote tweets entirely.