Mastodon will add quotes, although some users do not want it

Mastodon makes a change that some users may be divided. in Friday updateDecentralized platform Declare It works to add quotes “to help people move away from the billionaire billionaire billionaire to the open social web,” as Earlier monitored by Techcrunch.

Mastodon initially decided not to carry out the quotation posts because he saw their use for “harmful purposes”, such as a person’s quote out of context or harassment. However, in the end she found that her lack of quotes’ leaflets “prevents many people from joining Fediverse”. some He argued that the publications quoted Twitter “Diads” by allowing users to direct hatred and criticism towards another person.

To ensure that people do not offend to quote, Mastodon says it will allow you to choose if other users can quote your posts. You will also send you a notification when someone quotes from your message, and you will also get the ability to “pull your post from the context quoted at any time.”

But there are some technical obstacles that Mastodon will have to overcome to enable quotation posts. For one of them, the quotation posts are not uniform, which means that there is no specific way to build feature in Activitypub, the decentralized social network protocol used by Mastodon. The statute adds that quotation posts will affect a large part of the Mastodon code base, so it will take more time. “

“We know that quotation leaflets are a source of concern for some members of society, and they are required by others,” said Mastdon. “We are committed to sharing our progress and listening to your notes.”