What gets me is that the abuse scenario the new quote boost functionality is purported to address is still there, it just takes somebody a moment to… copy-and-paste a link.
Imagine where Mastodon would be if they’d focused on making the platform better this entire time without the yoke of […]
@FlipboardCS Any plans for @Flipboard to allow quote boosts for its accounts? 🔁
@Mastodon
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#QuoteBoosts #Quoots #Mastodon
Now that #Mastodon has #QuoteBoosts does anyone know when we might see an update to the #Android app that supports the feature?
"This is available to people on mastodon.online and mastodon.social now!"
Congratulations to the @Mastodon @MastodonEngineering team on the launch, and to the folks on these two servers: stay cool, be nice to folks you quote.
https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115224447782810898
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I get that #quoteposts are often used to dunk on people. To take someone's post and place yours above it to say they are an idiot. That sucks.
But I don't care so much about quoting "posts". I want to share articles, podcast episodes and videos with a comment re why it's awesome. And while we […]
I can't wait to get real #QuoteBoosts here. I take those way more seriously than regular requests
I'm glad the Mastodon developers have given more of their gameplan on quote posts, it's a feature that I still really miss from Twitter and enjoy having on Bluesky. :meowreach:
inb4 they make it opt-in instead of opt-out though so they become functionally useless just like the full text […]
"There are two primary elements to bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon: user-centric, and technical."
The @MastodonEngineering team shares their thinking process on implementing Quote Posts, a long-requested feature.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-p... […]
Screenshot of the Mastodon Github's "Quote+Boost" feature request thread... "Probably it is easy to miss in a long thread like this but we are working on this, have been working for a while now. I will lock the thread since for now there is nothing to be gained from further discussions until we have something to show."
Good News: @Gargron just responded to the GitHub thread, and apparently they ARE working on #QuoteBoosts for #Mastodon!
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues...
RT @Carwil@mastodon.online
The current proposal for #QuoteBoosts seems like a decent baseline that even opponents can live with:
Everyone can QB/QT themselves.
Opt-in to allow follows, followers, fellow instance members, or everyone to quote you with comments. Premission (1/2)
