🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@jackiantonovich As much as I would love to read this sadly it is pay walled.

@yassie_j

If your instance doesnt explicitly strip it then it would look like this at the end of the post:

[ QT: <link to post being quoted> ]

@cassolotl

@yassie_j

Apps that dont support Quote toots can see them just fine, its just that they appear as a link at the end of the toot rather than the actual quote.

If you dont see the quote toot your on a server that explicitly goes out of its way to strip it.

@cassolotl

@Viv

Quote toots are already implemented throughout the fediverse... it works simply by embedding a link as text in the toot with a specific format. If a server doesnt support it then they just see a link attached where the quote would be

@cassolotl

@cassolotl Quote toots are already implemented int he fediverse anda ll servers that implement it adhere to the same common standard.

QOTO, awoo.fyi, and I think fedibird are all examples of instances with quote toots. Misskey servers **all** have quote toots.

All instances handle it just fine already if its implemented as the standard was defined by misskey years ago and we all adhere to it...

It really is a nonissue, its done, problem solves, its just many servers are in the past and simply havent implemented the already agreed upon standard, nothing more.

@Ash

You must tag the person when quote tooting for them to get notifified.

@cassolotl

@davoloid

No its not in vanilla mastodon, but it is in quite a few fediverse servers from non-vanilla mastodon to non-mastodon.

@mansuetus @MrBerard

@admin

Yes its in the QOTO repo and the fedibird repo and likely quite a few other masto forks that support it. QOTO forked a long time ago so it wont be a clean match to 4.x however.

@mansuetus @MrBerard

@admin

I dont maintain backports personally no. Sorry

@mansuetus @MrBerard

@mansuetus

Yea if you are on vanilla mastodon its non-trivial.

@MrBerard

@kjr

I am glad to hear that... If you ever see it being used to harass let me know and we will look into addressing it.

@trinsec

@mansuetus

It isnt a feature coded into vanilla mastodon. It is, however, in many code bases including mastodon forks like QOTO and fedibird.

@MrBerard

@kjr That is unfortunate.. as @trinsec if anyone used it for harassment here they would be dealt with, so no worries. Have you had issues since you've been here?

@kjr But to answer your question, yes if you move to another instance your toot can still be quoted even if your server doesnt support it.

@kjr Since it is functionally just someone pasting a link to a toot in a message how is it creating harassment that couldnt exist without the feature? I fail to see how rendering a link to a toot in and of itself causes harassment.

@kjr How is it sensative? Functionally speaking it is literally the same as someone posting a link to your toot in their own toot. The only difference is that link gets rendered rather than showing as a link. What exactly is the concern here?

@fernandomorais admins town appears to be a bad URL....

@MrBerard

On instances that dont support it you will see a text link to the original post where the quoted toot should be... So it does, sorta, work on instances that dont support it. At least as best it could.

@mansuetus