Is it possible to quote a post in a repost without generating a reply event to the original account who did the post?

[MatthiasThoemel]

Hi,

the BlueSky Community Guidlines forbid spamming. Especially if the automated sending of a post / repost are generating disturbing messages on other accounts, like a reply-message because of the quote:

Text from BlueSky Community Guidelines:
"Generating automated or bulk interactions, including any that would cause a notification to a user like a message, follow, like or reply"

https://bsky.social/about/support/community-guidelines

Is it possible with the AT protocoll to do a repost with quoting but without genering a reply message on the account who did the original post?

If not, I have to stop my BOT unfortunately.

Or I must do a trick: Do a copy of the original post and use this as an image with a link to the original account. But I would like not to do it like that.

My best regards, Matthias

[MarshalX]

Hi,

Probably you can investigate around detached quotes. I am not sure does it produce notification or not. Otherwise, you always can just copy original post and link to the original source. But this is a huge ugly workaround

[MatthiasThoemel]

Hi, I did it like I described it yesterday: I am rendering an image of the original post by using selenium and this picture I am using to post the Wikipedia links related to that post.

To get 100 percent I would like to put a link on the picture which will lead to the original post. I did already a link in the header but that is not intuitive.

I did not figured out how to do this with atproto. Could you please help me in that case again?

[MarshalX]

Hi @MatthiasThoemel,

I am a bit of lost. What exactly do you mean by "put a link on the picture"? Do you mean alt text?

[MatthiasThoemel]

Hi, I mean: if the reader touches the picture, it should lead (by a public https link) to the original post. If you now touch the picture, Bluesky just shows the picture in a bigger version. Is it possible to change this behavioral the reader will see the original post if he or she touches the picture?

[MarshalX]

Probably you mean website embeds in posts with Open Graph data like thumbnail, title, description... And we have the exact example https://github.com/MarshalX/atproto/blob/main/examples/advanced_usage/send_ogp_link_card.py. You can try use link as post`s link and thumbnail as your screenshot

[MatthiasThoemel]

Thanks for this idea. I realized it and faced a little disadvantage: the thumbnail has a maximal heigh, so in my case I resize my pictures to an accepted aspect ratio. If the original picture is very tal, it results in that, which is OK in a way:

This picture fits good:

Thank you very much for your help.

[MarshalX]

@MatthiasThoemel could we mark this question as answered?

[MatthiasThoemel]

Good Morning, I marked your Answer - you can close this ticket - thank you.