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:

Highlight an excerpt from a post, and you'll see a popover to share directly to Bluesky (or copy as a link)

Quotes open in a panel you can toggle next to the post, showing quoted parts with links to the corresponding Bluesky posts

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!

Readers can share the things that resonated most, give feedback, and use to start related discussions

Writers can share questions or teasers from their own posts — along with posting on initial publish, a great way to share in more specific ways and direct the conversation

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 :)

Leaflet blog club: initial participants - Summer of 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:

[003] Silver Institutions - Dreaming at the Edge of the Apocalypse

Fungo Zone - not yet thinking

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

On a snapshot from the Morgan Library… - Scraps!

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

Towards a Framework for Authoring Adventures - Dungeon Merlin

ALBUMS YOU SHOULD LISTEN TO ! - ✨ Library of Arts ✨

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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!