"The addition of quote posts is one of the bigger changes to how Mastodon's social network operates, as the social network attempts to compete against larger rivals, like X and Threads. Quoting can be a conversation driver and is considered a baseline feature for text-first social networks. But Mastodon wanted to ensure the feature launched with more user protections so as not to change the culture of its network."
"To address this problem, Mastodon's version of quote posts come with added safety controls. On X, quote posts (formerly known as retweets when X was Twitter) contributed to a culture of " dunking," where users would often deride others by responding to their post with cruel jokes or insults. That remains a concern today, and other new competitors, like Threads and Bluesky."
"Additionally, users can control the visibility of quote posts by setting them to be visible to the public, to followers only, or a setting called "quiet public," which makes the quotes public but removes them from Mastodon's search, trends, and public timeline. In addition, users can override their default settings on a post-by-post basis, if need be, which could be useful at those times when you want to quote someone without attracting unwanted attention."
Mastodon 4.5 rolls out Quote Posts to all server operators and adds features for admins and conversation improvements. Quote Posts were piloted on large servers mastodon.online and mastodon.social in September to let users adjust. Users can choose who may quote them: Anyone, Followers only, or Just me. Users can set quote visibility to public, followers only, or quiet public, which keeps quotes public but removes them from search, trends, and the public timeline. Users can override default quote settings on individual posts. Mastodon added safety controls to reduce quote-driven abuse seen on other platforms.
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