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Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon (blog.joinmastodon.org)
submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 week ago (4 children)

They're really doing this right:

As explained above, the team started out with a shared view that Quote Posts can be misused. Many people simply do not want their content to be reframed by others; or they may find that if it is reposted, they receive unwelcome attention.

In order to mitigate these issues, we plan to include several features in our implementation:

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.

We also want to build a tight integration for Quote Posts with the reporting functionality, to help people to feel more safe.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, people can always takes screenshot, which have greater chance of things getting framed out of context.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

True but also slightly more friction to get back to the original account -- have to search them instead of just click

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Exactly why it's so easy to get taken out of context

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Just thinking out loud here.

I disagree with being able to opt out of being quoted, but I agree that one should be able to opt out of having their account visible in the the Quote Post. Or maybe I am misunderstanding what a Quote Post is supposed to be? I am thinking of it as a way to share someone else's post, but also verifying the the quote wasnt just made up.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Great if it is done right. This will put a stop all those screenshoted memes from Fediverse.

[–] mintiefresh 12 points 1 week ago

Sweet!

It's been 84 years.

[–] jqubed 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They say they’re going to propose some activity pub extensions to handle this. It seems to me like they should try to make this function in a way that works with how Lemmy handles cross-posts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Lemmy cross posts work by simply doing a query on the database for all posts with the same URL. If a quoted post is just a link then Lemmy should be able to handle it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Will be one major barrier removed. I hope people will like these safer quote toots

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I'm very exited for this. Just boosting a post always seems so impersonal and out of context. I almost always want to add my own message to my followers. I regularly decide not to boost because of this. I would do it a lot more if I can add my own message/context.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Mastodon has a lot of work to do to catch up to Bluesky, but I hope they do it.