Mastodon will add quote posts, even though some users don’t want them
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Summary
Mastodon has announced plans to enable the use of quote posts on its platform, despite initially deciding against the feature due to concerns regarding their misuse.
The platform intends for the change to encourage more users to join the Fediverse, and admits the absence of quote posts is a stumbling block for many migrants from Twitter.
To mitigate the potential misuse of the function, Mastodon will allow users to opt out of having their posts quoted, and will notify users when a post of theirs is quoted, enabling them to remove it from the quoted context at any time.
The lack of an industry standard for quote posts, and the work required to implement the change, means the platform expects the update to take some time to deploy.
Mastodon hopes to release a specification that will see the implementation of quote posts across Fediverse applications.