this post was submitted on 25 Jul 2023
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Eventually Mastodon will get a standard implementation of quote-toots. At that point I'd think the appropriate way to represent Lemmy comments as toots would be to represent the toots as quote-tooting the root (post) toot. You'd still have to click the toot to see the context of the parent toot, but that's a client problem - imho clients should always have an easier way to view the parent of a reply-toot than doing a full-page nav to the reply-toot in context of its thread, and the fact that they don't is a problem on every twitter-style microblogging platform. But you'd have quick context of which article they're replying to.
@Pxtl Practically, the best option would be to boost only posts from the community as that's how it would be shown on the Lemmy feed. Since the posts and replies themselves appear as standard posts and replies on Mastodon as well, only boosted by the Lemmy community account.