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When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.
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Richard
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But you will add our ability to prevent anyone quote posting us? You are destroying one of the major elements that made #mastodon peaceful.
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Eugen Rochko
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@waystation Yeah, that's an integral part of it.
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Many years ago on Twitter I was quote posted and then blocked by the current US president. It was not a fun experience.

Is the Mastodon implementation better? For example by always allowing a top level comment from the quoted account? And by the quote-post disappearing when the quote poster blocks the quoted account?

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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
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@waystation Except it looks like the implementation is opt out rather than opt in, which isn't what was promised.
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Alex, the Hearth Fire
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@waystation and the ability to hide quote-posts, in the same way we can hide boosts
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Paul Chambers🚧
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Looks like you will be able to filter quote posts like you do with other filters. @shlee, in this reply thread, showed where you can prevent your posts from being quote posted.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…
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fix: Allow quotes to be filtered by diondiondion · Pull Request #34786 · mastodon/mastodon

Closes MAS-430 Changes proposed in this PR: Pass contextType through to quotes, allowing them to be filtered as long as the filter action is "Hide with a warning". Completely hiding filt...
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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
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@paul Nothing in the link you've posted appears to "show where you can prevent your posts from being quote posted." It only appears to show how you can filter quote posts so you can't see them (but everyone else can). Did you intend to add a second link to your post?

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Paul Chambers🚧
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@tokyo_0 it's not in that link. That part is in this thread. Start it over from the top post to see it. Or,

The setting in my v4.4.0 instance is under Profile preferences>Other

Here is an actual screengrab of it.

@WizardOfDocs @waystation @shlee

Profile other settings for Mastodon v 4.4.0
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Tokyo Outsider (337ppm)
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@paul Thank you for this — appreciate you taking the time to attach the screenshot, as well 🧡

Personally I think not including "no one" as an option (always allowing those mentioned to quote) is a mistake, and at odds with at the very least the spirit of what's been said previously. I think a lot of quote abuse situations develop out of discussions where people are tagged. But that's a separate point to what you were saying 🙏

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Zbigniew 'Emill' Pławecki ♿️🎮
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I recently discovered this option that I can choose who can quote my toots, but there is no option to disable it completely, I have to allow at least mentioned people to quote me - why is that?
TBH, as a person that was against quote toots from the beginning I'm not happy about the way it was implemented (if that's the final approach ofc)
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Mike Johnston
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Makes sense. I can't wait to quote this post when it's released 😂
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HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
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Finally! --The long overdue #QuotePosts will be phased in on #Mastodon:

mastodon.social/@Gargron/11462…

Eugen Rochko

2025-06-04 15:51:34

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When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.

#mastodon #quoteposts
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Paul Chambers🚧
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@HistoPol Mastodon.Social, your instance, has been on 4.4 for a long time. You should have already been seeing them displaying from other servers... Curious if you had been.
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@paul

Hi Paul,thanks.
I have not noticed any relevant "layout change" regarding quotes, neither in my app, nor in the browser version.

Apart from that, why does @Gargron write, "...as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying..." Its tempus clearly relates to the future, not the present...🤔

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@HistoPol 4.4 has been out for a while in nightly and now beta. You are on it now and have been for several months as test subjects on Mastodon.Social. Other instances installed it, also. I've been meaning to install it for a couple months. I'm going to install it a little later today since it was released today in beta and not nightly.

I was just curious if their was a noticeable change.

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I think the tempus is actually referring to the actual official version release for all instances and is simply software dev speak.

Mastodon: About · Get the app · Keyboard shortcuts · View source code · v4.4.0-nightly.2025-06-04
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@paul @HistoPol well it's not the actual 4.4, it's just a nightly of the branch that will eventually become 4.4 so it does not have all the features that the final 4.4 will. Of course another reason you might not be seeing it yet even in the case that the code has been added is that it might still be disabled on the instance for now.
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Renaud Chaput
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@paul We bump the version as soon as the previous version gets a Release Candidate, so mastodon.social displayed a 4.4 version since last October.

Ingesting remote quote posts is behind an experimental flag that has not yet been enabled on mastodon.social, but it should be very soon.

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@renchap That's why I was curious if anyone had seen it yet. I hadn't seen any posts about it in the past but have heard about other changes here and there that came along. Thanks.

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@paul @HistoPol

Have not seen anything on mastodon.online yet.

Currently v4.4.0-nightly.2025-06-04

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Paul Chambers🚧
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@mastodonmigration that's why I was curious.

As one poster pointed out, dev branches change often. Today was truly the first beta pre-release and i with a second beta planned next week then I think an alpha version coming out and eventually the stable version.
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

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Release v4.4.0-beta.1 · mastodon/mastodon

WarningThis is a pre-release! This has not been as widely tested as regular releases, although it is still tested on mastodon.social and some other servers. If you update to this release, you will ...
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Paul Chambers🚧
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Can you go to your profile settings and see if the option to turn off quote posts is there? Curious if it is, esp if you aren't seeing any

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@paul
Where exactly should this be?

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@HistoPol I installed v 4.4 and activated the flag for my instance and the setting for users is under Profile preferences>Other

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Preferences >Other screen grab Preferences Save changes Group boosts in timelinesRecommended Do not show new boosts for posts that have been recently boosted (only affects newly-received boosts) Posting defaults Posting privacy Public - Everyone can see Posting language English Who can quote Everyone Mentioned users are always allowed to quote. This setting will only take effect for posts created with the next Mastodon version, but you can select your preference in preparation Always mark media as sensitive Sensitive media is hidden by default and can be revealed with a click
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@paul

THX Paul, however, I'm using Tusky most of the time.
There, there is no Other, but a long list of several screens, which I've checked.

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Paul Chambers🚧
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FYI, with Tusky, to reach those Profile preferences and certain other profile settings, I am almost certain you will need to log in to your account on the web through the browser. For you, that would be Mastodon.Social directly.

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@mastodonmigration One of the developers posted in another reply with us that they haven't activated it yet but plan to shortly for Mastodon.Social. @HistoPol

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Renaud Chaput

2025-06-04 20:53:00

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@paul We bump the version as soon as the previous version gets a Release Candidate, so mastodon.social displayed a 4.4 version since last October.

Ingesting remote quote posts is behind an experimental flag that has not yet been enabled on mastodon.social, but it should be very soon.

@HistoPol @Gargron


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Fabian (Bocchi) 🏳️‍🌈
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does other servers/software have this feature actually? I'm only aware of a client side implementation that resolves "RE: %URL%"

Or is it that, what mastodon will also do?

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This is awesome. I'll often see something but want to give my own take on it so I'll have to manually copy and paste the link into a new post, which seems duplicative. Really looking forward to this, 🙂
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Hopefully we won't have to wait that long for 4.5. Is there a minimum percentage of deployed 4.4 installations that will trigger the 4.5 release?
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Heretical_i
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Quote posting is coming to #Mastodon in 4.5. Remembering how @Gargron was always against it...
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contranym
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woo! but will translation return? it seems to have disappeared.
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Buttered Jorts
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hopefully not too long between 4.4 and 4.5, I’m gonna get sick of being ratioed by folks with quote posts without being able to return the favor ;)
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Sexybiggetje🐖
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i really hope I can hide quote posts from my main timeline like boosts and favourites. I think it pollutes the timeline, and it takes up precious screen time to scroll past them.
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Fell
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Fine with me. I don't use quote posts anyways, but having them render properly would be nice.
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Maj - 🇨🇦
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My number 1 use case for social media is wanting to curate and annotate content such as news articles and book reviews. I'm really looking forward to this feature!
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JoshMayBalloon
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sometimes I wonder what can we learn from #Twitter or even #Bluesky in terms of social medias like it.. quote posting, I think I'm fine with it, I just saw that it *could* be worse if implemented like in Twitter, I do hope that at least, since switching microblogging IS easier than like #Youtube or #Twitch it can finally build a sizable space in the internet.

Is Quoting Posts a way? Yeah, I think so, but also like.. a bunch, I can't remember it on the top of my head.. Welp, that's life

#bluesky #Twitter #youtube #twitch
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Mina
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I know, it was a tough choice to change something that was kind of part of Mastodon's original concept and even tougher, to implement it in a responsible and fair way, but yes:

I am very sure, it will improve the platform a lot.

Thanks for all the work and especially for changing your mind (I know, how hard that can be)!

😘

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Chris Jags
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Nice! With quote posts, I'll have everything I wanted on Masto.
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Mouse
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the original rational for prohibiting quote boosts, that people would abuse it and use it for dunking on others, was wrong to begin with. Literally anything can be abused and put to a malign purpose. Well done on this course correction. And may those who would abuse it be promptly blocked and reported.
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