Really glad to see @Mastodon working on quote #QuotePosts, and they're doing it in a really considerate way that will hopefully cut down on the downsides of quoted posts on other platforms. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
以前喜歡 mastodon 的一點是沒有 Quote Posts 的機制，避免了很多以前在 twitter 的紛爭。不過有時候還是會覺得要是可以 Quote Posts 的話也是很方便討論...
查了一下，今年 2 月的這篇，看起來 mastodon 是有打算將 Quote Posts 帶入 fedi 生態，只是為了避免濫用會加上一些防堵機制。期待之後的實作
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
@fennix #FunFact: Any decent #client already does #QuotePosts similar to how #Shitter did it and provide a preview of the 1st link appearing in the post.
So i.e. CW "USpol" will work fine...
I personally can't wait for quote posts because I usually use them to post a comment on information that I'm looking at - specifically, news about new shows, games, media in general.
Quoting the source is easier and makes me feel better because people will see where it came from right away without having to open an extra link. #QuotePosts #Fedi #Mastodon
I get that #quoteposts are often used to dunk on people. To take someone's post and place yours above it to say they are an idiot. That sucks.
But I don't care so much about quoting "posts". I want to share articles, podcast episodes and videos with a comment re why it's awesome. And while we can do that, someday all of those things should also be natively fedi content. And when I do this kind of QP, it should count as a boost. That's what I want. #SocialWeb
Does that make sense? #QuoteBoosts?
[I'm already hating myself for even bothering to beat this damned dead horse again]
"Making quote posts opt-in basically means that it will be hardly ever used, so why even bother investing all the time to develop it in the first place?"
#QuotePosts on #Mastodon have been made opt-in (the user decides whether their posts may be quote posted or not) thus preventing (as the most prevalent example) the dog-piling by armies of angry misogynist incel males who used to broadcaast a woman's post to a cc list of their angry misogynist incel male 'brothers' so the bros could execute a wholesale assault
I witnessed this scores of times on Twitter
You missed it? Or didn't care?
None of this may concern you, but at least #Gargron and the Mastodon devs had the sense to make their concerns known (what? two years ago?) and not just rush in to unleashing this weapon on demand
The 'demand' coming from 99% males, not surprisingly
You can still quote post; just opt-out from any controls, or don't use them
Because there's no #quoteposts feature on #Mastodon, I will sometimes reply to others' toots with quotes from a link they posted about, or make a statement that links to their original post. I'm not directly replying to them specifically, but want to amplify their post/toot with additional msging beyond just boosting.
Finally! Mastodon is adding the ability to quote posts, enhancing community interaction and engagement while addressing potential misuse. You choose whether your posts can be quoted, get notified when they are, and withdraw quotes at any time.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
Was checking the news!
Quote Posts...I hope it will turn out okay as long as I can choose what I quote...
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
"You will be able to choose whether your posts can be quoted at all."
"You will be notified when someone quotes you."
"You will be able to withdraw your post from the quoted context at any time."
Personally, I appreciate that #QuotePosts are coming to #Mastodon. The approach chosen sounds absolutely reasonable to me! 
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
Mastodon will add Quote Posts, even though some Users don’t want Them. 
Mastodon is making a change that might have some users divided. In an update, the decentralized platform announced that it’s working to add quote posts “to help people to transition away from proprietary, billionaire-owned social media to the open social web”.
https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
![[ImageSource: MastodonEngineering]
But there are some technical hurdles that Mastodon will have to overcome to enable quote posts. For one, quote posts aren’t standardized, meaning there isn’t a set way to build the feature into ActivityPub, the decentralized social networking protocol used by Mastodon. The platform adds that quote posts will impact a large portion of Mastodon’s codebase, so it will “take more time to develop.”
There isn’t a timeframe for when we can expect quote posts to arrive on Mastodon, but it aims to create a specification that will allow other Fediverse applications to implement quote posts as well. Mastodon first considered introducing quote posts in 2023 and received a grant to work on the project.
<https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2023/05/a-new-onboarding-experience-on-mastodon/#:~:text=And%20our%20work,these%20updates%20soon.>
“We know that Quote Posts are a source of concern for some members of the community, and highly-requested by others,” Mastodon says. “We’re committed to sharing our progress, and listening to your feedback.”](https://nerdculture.de/system/media_attachments/files/114/042/019/748/078/584/original/7ff45630c1ef1dc2.png)
Im also confused due to two primary reasons. 1) Most of the other #fediverse microblogging platforms have long had quote posts, is there any research and evidence to support that the Fediverse is more toxic due to these platforms? 2) The real vector of abuse on #Mastodon is Private Mention (PM) it has long been criticised and laid out by Black and Brown folks, I guess that’s why it falls on deaf ears and non of the Mastodon team made any blogposts discussing them getting rid of the feature. I also fail to see any anti quote users be passionate about abolishing PM. Also, if #QuotePosts are the reason for harassment and toxicity then what has Mastodon’s issues for years with harassment, racism, toxicity etc as those exist without #QuoteToots
For the #Mastodon crowd so anti quote posts. I need research evidence of the supposed toxicity of the feature. I’d like people to read these in good faith:
https://privacy.thenexus.today/black-twitter-quoting-and-white-toxicity-on-mastodon/
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon
I do ask in good faith any research and substantial evidence to backup the claims against quote posts. #Quotetoots #quoteboosts #quoteposts #fediverse #Blackfedi #fedi
ICYMI: Mastodon to introduce quote posts with focus on user control https://ppc.land/mastodon-to-introduce-quote-posts-with-focus-on-user-control/ #Mastodon #SocialMedia #UserControl #QuotePosts #Privacy
ICYMI: Mastodon to introduce quote posts with focus on user control: Social network to add long-requested feature with safety controls, allowing users to manage how their content is shared https://ppc.land/mastodon-to-introduce-quote-posts-with-focus-on-user-control/ #Mastodon #SocialMedia #UserControl #QuotePosts #Privacy
I feel like #Mastodon quote toots proposal is overengineered. Why not stick to a basic implementation used by Misskeys and Akkomas?
It would be too much work for a feature that effectively duplicates the functionality of replies.
Here's the thing about #QuotePosts - it doesn't matter what #Mastodon does, how much they "thought about" it, how "smart" they were with making an "abuse-proof" system, because client apps already do them, and your client app IS your Mastodon experience.
The most important thing a client app can do, with respect to quote posts, is ignore the official guidelines, and keep doing things the way they were doing things.
Oh wow - is this for real? #Mastodon #quoteposts https://ppc.land/mastodon-to-introduce-quote-posts-with-focus-on-user-control/
The thing I really want from quote boosts/quote posts on Mastodon?
Put the quoted text first, then put the commentary or reply *after it*.
This shouldn't be a weird idea. As the old adage puts it:
Because it reverses the normal order of reading.
> Why is bottom-quoting bad?
