Mastodon adds to the controversial “quotation posts” feature

Mastodon, and The decentralized alternative to XIt will adopt a controversial feature of the platform previously known as Twitter: Quote Posts. On Friday, the company shared the progress achieved in the implementation of the feature, which divided the users because of its capabilities to use it in the abuse via the Internet and bullying.

Critics have long argued that adding tweets is a quote Help destroy Twitter, Network heart In a more toxic online society.

Some Mastodon users strongly feel that quotation posts do not belong to Mastodon, where the feature is often used for “the” mystery “, the author of the Post-especially if Dunker is a high-level individual with many followers.

However, other Mastodon users want to see quotation posts, as the feature makes it easy to refer to another person’s post and its content when making a response. In addition, quotation posts would bring the network more walking with its competitors, including X as well as newer competitors such as Threads and Bluesky.

Note Mastodon in Blog post He realizes that the feature is “a source of concern” for some and “very required” by others.

“Many people simply do not want to reformulate their content by others; or they may find that if it is re -spread, they get an unwanted attention,” says Mastodon.

The organization applied for a request Grant To help finance the development of quotation functions again in 2024, earlier Discussions About the feature. Now, the team shares its progress, especially with regard to how to reflect on the user’s complaints.

For beginners, Mastodon says it will allow users to control whether their posts can be transferred at all. This would protect people from being benefiting from unwanted attention or somewhat hateful responses. (Nevertheless, it can be said, people can still shot a person to circulate it on a wider scale if they intend to hunt the user.)

In addition, users will be notified if someone is quoting from them, and they will be able to withdraw their post from the quoted context at any time. This last option can help in the event that a person’s quotation post goes viral, and the original poster begins to get a lot of attention or even abuse, forcing them to reconsider whether they want to be published at all quote.

In addition to the possibility of ill -treatment, Mastodon says there are also technical challenges about the implementation of quotation posts, as there is no uniform method of building feature in Activitypub, and the main protocol that indicates Mastodon, Mastodon and Mastodon and Other federal applications.

Some third -party clients already offer their own copies of quotation posts, but they do not include the features that Mastodon wants to add to the additional control of the user and privacy. As a result, Mastodon is Cooperation with others To create specifications that will allow all MASTODON applications and customers to access the same job.

The quotation posts will also affect other parts of the MASTODON icon base, advertising memories, including the Activitypub processing code, the public application programming interface, the web user interface, the moderate and capacity plate, the management panel, and the official iOS and Android applications.

Unfortunately, the MASTDON Declaration did not participate in the time it will take before adding the feature or any kind of the general release schedule, only saying that the quotation posts “will take more time to develop.”