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Bringing this highly requested feature to #Mastodon and the fediverse is not as trivial as some might think, but quote posts are coming. Here is our latest write-up about our progress:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.
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It's actually much more trivial
Use a #Fediverse account that can do this.
Use #Pleroma#Akkoma#Misskey#Sharkey#IceShrimp#Catodon#Foundkey#Friendica etc.
All these accesses to the #Fediverse have been able to do this for years

@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
#fediverse #pleroma #misskey #friendica #akkoma #sharkey #iceshrimp #foundkey #catodon @Mastodon Engineering
flo
Makes perfect sense to tell the
@MastodonEngineering
to not use Mastodon :'D
@Mastodon Engineering
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This is also not meant for @MastodonEngineering, but for all those who read this post and know nothing about the #Fediverse and that the other software has been able to do all this forever 😉
@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social
#fediverse @Mastodon Engineering @MastodonEngineering
Maxi 10x 💉
How can you disallow a post on one of those other server softwares to be quoted? Can you disallow it only for selected audiences? Do you even get a notification when someone quotes you? I very much guess not. Because it’s just a dirty hack without considering any social implications.
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this is not a hack but has always been part of the Fediverse before Mastodon appeared
Maxi 10x 💉
That’s not the point. Even Twitter’s implementation of quote tweets with notification for the quoted account was better thought out than simply "client renders a linked post in-line". This isn’t sustainable with a growing network and lots of bad actors. Your constant crusade against Mastodon is perplexingly childish.
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Can you explain this to the screenshot people? 🤔
Mathias Hasselmann
This mechanism kind of works for tiny networks. It doesn't work for greater networks: Greater networks attract a bigger number of people who try to harass and threaten other people. The #Fediverse simply will fail, if it fails to protect its users.

Therefore I hope that this initiative results in a well discussed, widely accepted proposal, which also gets adopted by the early implementers of similar features.

We need the Fediverse to succeed!
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Then take a look at this discussion. just because mastodon does it this way doesn't mean it's good.

RE: https://fedi.solibre.de/objects/568cb22b-1967-afa1-8983-b78020616555

Matthias

Es ist also bald soweit. Mastodon wird das bekommen, was auf anderen Plattformen im Fediverse seit Jahren Alltag ist. Eine QuotePost Funktion. Es wird mit Si...
fedi.solibre.de
Mathias Hasselmann
The only critique I can find in this thread is "they dare to propose a change". Sorry, that's a level of discussion I can't take serious.
Mathias Hasselmann
So you are worried that the proposed mechanism can be circumvented? Of course it can be circumvented by working outside the protocol.

Still it usually are the built-in, the default mechanisms which set the baseline and define a social network's culture. That's what this proposal is talking about.
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Mastodon is building something outside the protocol and without involving the other projects.
Something that only works within the Mastodon software and leaves out the rest of the Fediverse.
Just like they did with the CW function.
What will that lead to?

@frumble@chaos.social
@Maxi 10x 💉
Hiker
What did I miss? What is going on here? @taschenorakel @frumble
@Maxi 10x 💉 @Mathias Hasselmann
crossgolf_rebel - kostenlose Kwalitätsposts
check out the quoted post and the link to the original discussion

https://loma.ml/display/373ebf56-1467-af8b-be64-5f8564575953
I dare to question the holy golden cow Mastodon

@taschenorakel@mastodon.green@frumble@chaos.social
RE: https://mastodon.green/users/taschenorakel/statuses/114004272143433624

Matthias

Es ist also bald soweit. Mastodon wird das bekommen, was auf anderen Plattformen im Fediverse seit Jahren Alltag ist. Eine QuotePost Funktion. Es wird mit Si...
loma.ml
@Maxi 10x 💉 @Mathias Hasselmann
Mathias Hasselmann
From what I see Mastdon follows the well documented and established FEP process.

Do you want to propose that Mastdon is not qualified to use the FEP process?

Do you question the FEP process at all?

What is the problem you want to address?

PS: If you want to discuss CW please explain your concerns in detail. I won't discuss yet another whistle blow.
isabel :sge: :transper:
das wird doch @anneroth bestimmt interessieren
@Anne Roth
Anne Roth
„We’re working on it, but Quote Posts will still take more time to develop.“ 😢
Kristoffer Patrick Cornils
Please don't do this. Design choices that allow users to quite literally put their opinion above someone else's statements are absolutely poisoneous for any attempts to create a more egalitarian form of communcation.
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Mathias Hasselmann
The point is: Quote posting already happens in certain clients, and in the worst possible, most harassing way. As I see it the Mastdon team isn't really adding a new feature. They "simply" try to regulate a feature that's known to be harmful.

If this effort succeeds and client authors replace their abusable implementations of quote posts with the official mechanism, you'll simply opt-out from quote posts and you'll be as safe as anyone could be.
Mathias Hasselmann
Actually I'd like to see a world without any harassment at all...

Anyway: As an apparently privileged person I fail to see how quote posting as proposed by the Mastodon team would be abused for harassment. For once you have the option to quickly pull the plug, if someone abuse the feature. Even more you risk moderation action and de-federation if you abuse the feature.

Could you explain a bit more to help @MastodonEngineering to understand your concerns?
@Mastodon Engineering
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