Mastodon is working to add the controversial “post quote” feature

Mastodon, Distributed alternatives of xpreviously known as Twitter: adopts a controversial feature from a Quote Post. The company shared progress on Friday regarding the implementation of the feature. This divides users into the possibility of being used for online abuse and bullying.

Critics have long added quote tweets Helped to ruin Twitter, Turn the network To a more toxic online community.

Some Mastodon users strongly feel that quoted posts do not belong to Mastodon. This feature is often used to “dunk” in other people’s posts, so it can not only create negativity, but also help to promote the flood of original abusive replies. Post Author – especially if Dunker is a well-known individual with many followers.

However, other Mastodon users would like to see quoted posts added to make it easier to see other people’s posts and their content when dealing with them. Additionally, the cited posts will more match the networks along with competitors including X and newer rivals such as Threads and Bluesky.

Mastodon pointed out That blog post We recognize that this feature is both a “source of concern” for some and a “higher demand” from others.

“Many people just don’t want to reconstruct their content into others. Or they may find that if it’s reposted they will pay unwelcome attention. Hmm,” says Mastodon’s blog post.

The organization has applied for a Grant Helping to fund the development of quotation marks from 2024 onwards Discussion Around the function. Now, the team is sharing progress, particularly in that they want to alleviate user complaints.

First of all, Mastodon says it allows users to control whether or not they can quote a post. This provides some protection from people being recipients of unnecessary attention and hateful replies. (However, perhaps people can screenshot someone’s post to circulate more widely if they’re going to troll users.)

Additionally, if someone is quoting them, the user will be notified and can always pull the post from the cited context. This latter option is useful if someone’s quoted post goes viral, and the original poster either pays too much attention or starts being abused, forcing them to reconsider whether they can quote the post at all. Masu.

Beyond the possibility of abuse, Mastodon also faces technical challenges in implementing quotation mark posts, as there is no standardized way to build the functionality of ActivityPub, the underlying protocol that drives Mastodon and Mastodon. I say there is. Other federation apps.

Some third-party Mastodon clients already offer their own version of the quote posting, but do not include any features that Mastodon wants to add for additional user control and privacy. As a result, Mastodon is I’m working with other people Create a specification that allows all Mastodon apps and clients to access the same functionality.

Quotation mark posts also affect announcements such as other parts of Mastodon’s codebase, ActivityPub processing code, public APIs, web user interface, moderation panels and features, admin panels, official iOS and Android applications.

Unfortunately, Mastodon’s announcement did not share any kind of timeline for public releases, how long it will be before the feature was added.