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.

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[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

How do those of us who loathe the horrific and proven bad idea of quote posts, and also refuse to use Mastodon, opt out of this terrible misfeature? Will blocking anyone who quote posts me and defederating from their instance remove the quote?

[–] tomenzgg@midwest.social 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

So part of the approach they're using is this idea of permissions (at a technical level, it's using the permission system that GoToSocial has been innovating on).

So, theoretically, they should not be able to quote-post you until given the green light from you.

I've noticed that quote-posts which come across my Mastodon timeline from implementations which don't use this permissions system have now been displaying the quoted post as just the message, "This post is pending approval from the original author," (I expect since most previously-existing implementations of the feature didn't use said permission system, any).

[–] fastfinge@rblind.com 4 points 4 days ago

Perfect! Thanks for the info!