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“Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon” https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
The implementation strategy looks good. Keeps the control in the hands of the person who wrote the post being quoted rather than the other way round.
Very interesting and informative article on Quote Posting. Really appreciate that the Mastodon dev team is talking to the community and thinking this through...
"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."
@mastodonmigration @heliomass The ability to remove quoted posts from quoting posts is a recipe for misinformation disasters, since it removes the context of the post that did the quoting. I would strenuously and publicly object to this. I would also note that the ability to say you don't want posts quoted could open a can of worms, since anyone who really wanted to quote a public post could do so with a screen grab of the post of interest, creating the potential for new battles.
"...since anyone who really wanted to quote a public post could do so with a screen grab of the post of interest, creating the potential for new battles."
As happens now.
@mastodonmigration @lauren @heliomass 
This. Folks can always switch to a screenshot if needed, but removing the semantic "quoted context" makes it hard for the audience of the person doing the quoting to initiate unwanted contact with the original author.
I think the ability to take oneself out of quoted context will also help prevent quoting from turning into a substitute for functioning moderation like it was on 
(i.e. relying on mob to do the work mods weren't doing) and encourage continuing to just report something if it's abusive rather than quoting it for everyone to see. (This will also help avoid folks just seeing a bunch of outrage bait.)