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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[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

When a substantial fraction of users are actually using an appview with that trait, that will be great.

[–] irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Sure, but its not a fault of the protocol itself. You could easily choose to discard article or note objects on ActivityPub.

[–] Zak@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

You can write software to filter on arbitrary criteria with ActivityPub, or email, or IRC, or virtually any other protocol. My point is that ATProto is designed to actively encourage it, and the flagship implementation does so. Subtle hints in interfaces have a big impact on how people, including developers use software.