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

@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

@rwhit

Then you should be good as long as you selected no bots option in your account preferences.

@antares

Just a reminder, there are tons of servers on the fediverse with quote toot feature, and they all follow the same standard. QOTO is a mastodon instance with Quote toots for example. Fedibird is also a very large server that is mastodon based that has the feature. All Misskey servers also have the feature.

@stavvers There isnt a "lack of quotes"... many servers in the fediverse have the quote toot feature including forks of mastodon... QOTO has quote toots for example.

@mur2501

The differences are fairly significant, something like 2 dozen or more additional features, then we try to pull in piece by piece updates and features from masto if they cover something we didnt already have.

@trinsec

@trinsec

The version we originally forked from would be the version from 5 years ago.

We have made minor deploys that werent announced, small bug fixes here and there. Not sure how much of what I pulled in in v4 is in the RUNNING server, but I do know I pulled it into my local code base, I'd need to check what actually made it out. The last year has mostly been minor security fixes.

@mur2501

@trinsec

We dont pull from whole versions, we pull in features piecemeal. There is code from v4 in QOTO for example, just not very much of it yet.

@mur2501