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.
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.
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.
Tha fuck is that supposed to even mean? Have none of the Mastodon devs ever heard about screenshots?
Calm down.
These are called mitigations. They will make a big impact.
A single tap to start spewing shit at someone is very different from having to enter someone’s username. Or even having to find someone’s username, depending on how the screenshot is handled. Friction is the point here.
You come off a bit like someone saying “you think this’ll fucking stop me?”
everyone is well aware that screenshots can be easily faked.
Thats stupid
Great if it is done right. This will put a stop all those screenshoted memes from Fediverse.
Sweet!
It's been 84 years.
Will be one major barrier removed. I hope people will like these safer quote toots
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.
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
Mastodon has a lot of work to do to catch up to Bluesky, but I hope they do it.
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.
