Mastodon is officially rolling out quote posts. Starting next week, you’ll see an option to quote another user by selecting the repost — or “boost” — button, allowing you to add your thoughts to someone else’s post.
The decentralized platform initially planned not to launch quote posts over concerns that they could be used for harassment or to take someone out of context. Mastodon reversed this decision in February, saying a lack of quote posts might discourage people from joining the fediverse.
FWIW this was always an ideological choice, not a technical one. Masto users saw how quote-posts were used on other platforms to generate harassment, doxxing, dogpiling, etc. and chose not to include the feature. It’s hard to say whether it has had a cooling effect on those, but it seems like most people on Masto consider the benefits to outweigh the costs.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
rolling out to Mastodon*
You have to standardize it to roll that to the fediverse.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Mastodon is a subset of the fediverse.
If something is in Mastodon, it’s in the fediverse.
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It’s ALREADY in the fediverse with Misskey, Lemmy, and other APub software i don’t know.
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Sharkey, misskeys, pleroma, akkoma, wafrn and friendica already have quotes.
Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 1 day ago
Sharkey already has quote posts.
jqubed@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I thought Misskey and its forks already supported quote posts?
somerandomperson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
They already have quotes.
F4rtEmp3r0r@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Akkoma, Misskey and alike have had quote posts for ages now
Zak@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It is likely most other software will be able to consume them.
This highlights what I believe to be a poor choice in the design of BlueSky’s AT Protocol; ActivityPub software is usually liberal in what it accepts and displays, while ATProto enforces schemas (“lexicon”).
irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
It usually comes down to a difference in vision, the fediverses schtick is that you can follow Reddit from Twitter or whatever, whereas on atproto you use a different appview for different formats, like frontpage.fyi for links, and whtwnd.net for blogging.