Quotes: social sharing on Bluesky!

We added a new feature for sharing quotes from Leaflet posts!

This has two parts, highlights and quotes, that work together:

Anyone can share the highlight link, even without a Bluesky account. But when you share to Bluesky, it's saved as a quote, and those conversations live alongside the post.

Olivier wrote up a nice thread on this as well, with a demo + great points on how this shows what's possible with atproto.

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Sharing to spark conversations

We like this because it adds a direct social loop between Leaflet and Bluesky — and because it's useful both for readers and writers!

I'm enjoying this as both a reader and writer…and in particular excited to use more for the casual summer blog club we're running! Browse participants' pubs here, lots of good ones to try quoting :)

https://summer-of-pub.leaflet.pub/3luns266ud22b External Link • summer-of-pub.leaflet.pub

This functions somewhat adjacent to comments, though more anchored on sharing than conversation, and we still have some things to figure out e.g. around notifying authors/commenters.

We'd still like to add more standard comments too, and think it'll fit nicely alongside quotes.

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Notable Quotables

A few fun examples to see this in action!

Jared shared a couple great ones from Jake and JT:

https://jakefee.leaflet.pub/3lr47xhlnzc2q/l-quote/28_0-28_467#28_0 External Link • jakefee.leaflet.pub https://not-yet-thinking.leaflet.pub/3lv5gbcjew22x/l-quote/21_0-21_445#21_0 External Link • not-yet-thinking.leaflet.pub

Here's one Bread shared from one of my Scraps! posts:

https://scraps.schlage.town/3lvbvspr6bc2i/l-quote/6.4_0-6.4.0_154#6.4_0 External Link • scraps.schlage.town

And I've been playing with quotes a bunch too!

https://dungeon-merlin.leaflet.pub/3lv7pjujrn22u/l-quote/10_0-10_363#10_0 External Link • dungeon-merlin.leaflet.pub https://roxxiblogs.leaflet.pub/3luzlamck6s2j/l-quote/1_0-1_450#1_0 External Link • roxxiblogs.leaflet.pub https://htmlenergy.leaflet.pub/3luuqcx237k2x/l-quote/2_0-3_159#2_0 External Link • htmlenergy.leaflet.pub

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Let us know if you have thoughts / feedback on this or other social features you'd like to see us explore next!