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Fair warning.

I'm a relentless, unapologetic Quote Poster.

It's part of my #BlackTwitter heritage

It's how i put my stamp on something and say "nah, for real, you should look at this thing here, especially through the lens of my comment"

#QuoteToots #QuotePosts as human, intentional, curation

# Pachli 3.2.0 is released

## New features

- Apply filters to search results, bookmarks, and favourites
- Display account pronouns
- #quoteposts

## Fixes

- Make "Load newest notifications" work
- Load images from sites using LetsEncrypt certificates on older devices
- Show emojis in author names in bylines
- Translate boosted posts correctly
- Improve display of error causes
- Show display names with some RTL characters correctly

https://pachli.app/pachli/2025/11/30/3.2.0-release.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=release-3.2.0

#MastoDev #AndroidDev

Jupiter Rowland schrieb den folgenden Beitrag Sun, 21 Sep 2025 21:42:56 +0200 How broken-by-design are Mastodon's quote-posts? This broken.
The various issues with quote-posts on Mastodon that nobody on Mastodon is aware of; CW: long (almost 6,800 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse-beyond-Mastodon meta, Mastodon looking bad in comparison with the rest of the Fediverse, quote-post meta
Okay, everyone, sit down. I'll tell you a few things about Mastodon's quote-post feature that you know nothing about. Definitely not if all you know is Mastodon. Oh, and by the way, in case you don't know yet in spite of following me: The Fediverse is not only Mastodon.

Mastodon has been quote-post-able for as long as it has been around

Eugen Rochko is bringing quote-posts to Mastodon. But he is not bringing quote-posts to the Fediverse. The Fediverse has had quote-posts for 15 years.

It was Mike Macgirvin who introduced quote-posts to the Fediverse in July, 2010, when he launched something called Mistpark back then and Friendica today (https://friendi.ca, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendica). That was five and a half years before Mastodon was launched.

In fact, when Mastodon was launched, it immediately federated itself with Friendica and with Hubzilla, a fork of a fork of Friendica by Friendica's own creator which has quote-posts, too. So when Mastodon was launched, it immediately became possible to quote-post Mastodon toots. Not on Mastodon itself, but on Friendica and Hubzilla.

Just about everything that isn't Mastodon has already got quote-posts right now

Here are a few (but not even all) Fediverse server applications that already have quote-posts:

And they're all part of the Fediverse which means that they're all connected to Mastodon. People on all of these can theoretically read your Mastodon toots. And people on all of these can theoretically quote-post your Mastodon toots.

Mastodon's quote-post opt-in is not a water-tight defence against being quote-posted

So you can choose not to be quote-posted. But you can only choose not to be quote-posted by Mastodon users. This opt-in does not work with the rest of the Fediverse.

First of all, that's because Mastodon's quote-post feature is not compatible with anything else out there. Mastodon's developers have chosen to re-invent the quote-posting wheel from scratch. They've intentionally chosen to do so in a way that's completely incompatible with everything else out there.

Their intention was to reinforce Mastodon's appearance to its own users as the one and only Fediverse and ActivityPub gold standard and to make Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Firefish, Iceshrimp, Sharkey, CherryPick, Catodon, Mitra, Friendica, Hubzilla, (streams), Forte etc. look broken. It's part of their plan to keep Mastodon users on Mastodon in the wake of Mastodon's market share in the Fediverse shrinking.

Also, they did not publish any specifications on their quote-post implementation, so even those non-Mastodon developers who are fast enough didn't have a chance to implement support for Mastodon's opt-in.

This means that even if you've set your posts to un-quote-post-able on Mastodon, everything I've listed above can still quote-post you with no resistance.

Absolute Fediverse-wide protection against being quote-posted is impossible

And don't get your hopes high that the day will come when nobody on the Fediverse will be able to quote-post you, whether they're on Mastodon or not. Such a setting is technologically impossible.

Who says that? Mike Macgirvin says that. The guy who launched Friendica and brought quote-posts to the Fediverse 15 years ago, remember? This guy has built the Fediverse's most elaborate, most complex, most fine-grained, most advanced permissions system into (streams) and Forte.

These two have reply control, the kind of which you couldn't image in your wildest dreams. I'm serious. They have permissions settings for almost everything on two or three levels, for your whole channel, individually per contact and sometimes even per post or per file or folder in the file storage.

But they don't have quote-post permission settings. Because that's impossible to enforce Fediverse-wide. And even if it was possible, it'd be pointless. If they can't quote-post you, they'll copy-paste you. If they can't copy-paste you either because they're on a phone, they'll post screenshots of your toots.

Mike also says, there is exactly one way to keep people from quote-posting you, and that's by not posting in public. Unfortunately, unlike what he has created, Mastodon has little between "public" and "DM", if anything.

Mastodon cannot quote-post the non-Mastodon Fediverse

This may be the big surprise: It has recently been discovered by chance that Mastodon's quote-post feature only works with Mastodon toots.

On the one hand, Pleroma, Akkoma, Misskey, Sharkey, Friendica, Hubzilla etc. can quote-post just about everything that comes in from Mastodon. But on the other hand, no Mastodon 4.5 user will be able to quote-post anything from either of these. Or from Pixelfed or PeerTube or Loops or Castopod or WriteFreely or whatever.

That's because Mastodon is looking for a quote-post opt-in. But nothing else in the Fediverse supports Mastodon's quote-post opt-in, also seeing as it's still officially in development. And it's highly unlikely that everything in the Fediverse will adopt another piece of non-standard, proprietary Mastodon tech.

"Quote" actually means something else

Lastly, Mastodon has the audacity to call this feature "quote".

A "quote" is something else. Remember forums? Like, bulletin-board forums with subforums and all? Where posts are quoted in follow-ups, entirely or only partially? That's what a quote is. That has got nothing to do with quote-posts.

Why I say that there's a difference? Because I also say that Friendica has had both quotes and quote-posts.

It has had them for 15 years, both quotes (which it calls "quotes", go figure) and quote-posts (which it calls "quoted shares", and which include the original author of the quoted post, complete with their profile picture and a clickable link to them, as well as a clickable link to the original post).

Hubzilla has both. (streams) has both. Forte has both. And I wouldn't be surprised if other Fediverse server software had both, too.

The irony is that Mastodon itself has been able to render actual quotes since version 4.0 from October, 2022. At the same time, it will continue to be unable to render any quote-posts done outside of Mastodon for the foreseeable future.

#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Pleroma #Akkoma #Misskey #Forkey #Forkeys #Firefish #Iceshrimp #Sharkey #CherryPick #Catodon #Mitra #Friendica #Hubzilla #Streams #(streams) #Forte #QuotePost #QuotePosts #QuoteTweet #QuoteTweets #QuoteToot #QuoteToots #QuoteBoost #QuoteBoosts #QuotedShares

#mastodon #fediverse #activitypub #hubzilla #friendica #forte #streams

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#trump
#afriforum
#MastodonAfrica
#quoteposts
#tithe

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

A new #Pachli Current is rolling out with a handful of cosmetic changes and bug fixes for #quoteposts.

User visible changes are:

1. If your server allows quoting the "boost" button now also shows a pair of quotes.
2. Following feedback, the background colour for quotes/ preview cards in light mode is slightly darker and in dark mode is slightly lighter.

Old light mode, with new boost/quote button

New light mode (darker background) with new boost/quote button.

The following hashtags are trending across South African Mastodon instances:

#Wordle
#wordle1622
#aiart
#music
#MastodonAfrica
#quoteposts
#bible
#god
#assurance
#southafrica

Based on recent posts made by non-automated accounts. Posts with more boosts, favourites, and replies are weighted higher.

So #MastodonAfrica now supports #QuotePosts, for better or worse.

Despite all my bitching about them, I will probably end up using them. There's no better way to both share a post and simultaneously comment on it, in such a way that your followers see your comments in the same context as the share.

I still wish the comments on quote posts would get included in the thread of the quoted post, so that everyone could participate in the new conversation. But maybe that would just end up being way too convoluted and confusing, and I should just be careful what I wish for. :-)

# Quote posts in Pachli Current

#Pachli Current now supports #quoteposts .

There are a number of design decisions here that are up for discussion and I do expect things will change over the next month or so in response to feedback.

#androiddev #mastodev

A villain in an era could have been a hero in another.
#Thought #Quote #QuoteToots #QuotePosts

#Pachli Current now lets you set your account-level preference for who can quote your posts.

Open Account Preferences, and it's in the "Publishing" section, per the attached screenshot.

#quoteposts #androiddev #mastodev

#FediTips: If you're already sick of seeing quotes as replies to quotes with screenshots attached that show pending quotes in Mastodon you can go to settings > filters and make a filter with the word "RE: https://" and tick "whole word".

You're welcome.

#quotes #FilterQuotes #FilterQuotePosts #QuotePosts

Now in #Pachli Current: viewing the "detailed" version of a post (the one you see after tapping on it) now shows -- next to the number of boosts and favourites -- the number of times the post has been quoted (if this is your post, Mastodon doesn't let you see this information for posts written by others).

Tapping that number will show you a timeline of those posts so you can see how you're being quoted, and, optionally, remove your quoted post from them.

#androiddev #mastodev #quoteposts

If you're waiting for the #tusky timeline rewrite before new features arrive then you will probably enjoy #pachli, https://pachli.app.

You're already familiar with the UI, and there are countless quality of life improvements.

Well, not literally countless. I've listed some of them at https://gist.github.com/nikclayton/2244d5ce547706983ca9f79a76ebbabd

And #quoteposts at the end of this month.

The #quoteposts support in #Pachli Current continues.

If someone has quoted one of your posts you can now remove the quote from their post.

The attached screenshot shows the new "Remove quote" button on a quote of one of the posts from this account.

#mastodev #androiddev

#QuotePosts from #Flipboard don't really seem to work. I understand if the original authors want to approve quote posts after checking them first. But then they have to actually carry out this check.

Instead, I get an *endless* ‘post pending’ every time. These accounts should switch to automatic approval if they don't have time for manual approval!
I have this problem only with Flipboard. com accounts, all others work in seconds only, maximum some hours.

@Flipboard

The new #Pachli Current supports #quoteposts notifications. You'll see if someone quoted one of your posts, or if a post you quoted has been edited.

Work in progress:

- Detach #quotes of your posts from other people's posts.
- UI to manage your quote-related preferences.
- Writing posts that quote other posts.

#androiddev #mastodev

For folks who want to track the work on quote posts for @elk or contribute (🙏🏼) -- please see the issues I've created and tagged "quote-posts"

https://github.com/elk-zone/elk/issues?q=state%3Aopen%20label%3A%22quote-posts%22

#mastodon #elk #quoteposts
@Mastodon

It’s so beautiful how #Mastodon ended up implementing quote posts. Result of not giving up on community feedback, no matter how heated it got. Showcasing how much value is put on people’s passionate opinions, yet still being decisive. #fediverse #community #quoteposts

Hmmm creature of habit.

We can quote post now. I still have not quote posted. I find quote posting quite a good way to communicate and add meaning. I missed quote posting when I immigrated from The Bird Cage. I got used to not quote posting after some time on Mastodon. And now - apparently - I don't really quote post.

I should start to quote post again. I just have to remember how to do it.

#Mastodon #Twitter #QuotePosts #CreaturesOfHabit

The Puzzle Scam Evolves Again – Now It’s Everywhere

As I predicted, the puzzle scam has evolved again. What started as simple, seemingly innocent puzzles has grown into something much more pervasive and complicated. It’s no longer limited to one niche, one community, or one type of content. What used to be puzzles are now appearing in memes, political posts, religious content, science posts, and even quotes. It seems that nothing is safe from the reach of this scam, and the audacity behind it is remarkable. Every time I think I’ve seen it […]

https://jaimedavid.blog/2025/11/15/00/10/17/analysis/jaimedavid327/8127/the-puzzle-scam-evolves-again-now-its-everywhere/

#QuotePosts

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