Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…
Introducing quote posts
Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.Mastodon Blog
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in reply to Mastodon • • •We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!
However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).
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in reply to Mastodon • • •There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.
Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.
docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quo…
Quoting other posts - Mastodon documentation
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in reply to Dev • • •Dev
in reply to Bùi Minh Đức • • •@duc @kolya I would simply like anything that I post which gets some traction filled with replies “well actually” or explaining my post to me. Or filling the replies with more unrelated misery about something bad that happened to me. Or having arguments.
The issue is never regular posts. It is important sometimes to indicate to people outside my circle that they don’t need to weigh in on something or I’m not asking for advice.
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in reply to Dev • • •@dev @duc @kolya
Why do you want people outside your circle to read your posts, but to do not be able to say what they think about them?
What's the meaning?🤔
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in reply to Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •Add documentation for Mastodon 4.5 quote post features by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #1710 · mastodon/documentation
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in reply to Kuba Suder • @mackuba.eu on 🦋 • • •Pete
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Lazy B0y
in reply to Mastodon • • •i don’t understand why this took so long.
the worries that this could be used to make negative comments about others post are completely out of reality, because this can also be achieved by posting it as a link or posting a screenshot.
on other platforms that is handled quite simply: if somebody does a repost that you don’t like, block the account and done.
Actually, then they still can post links or screenshots with negative comments because thats anyway completely unavoidable.
Michael 🇺🇦
in reply to Lazy B0y • • •I guess It took so long, since this has been designed with a complete workflow of requesting an approval and stuff like that. You can see the whole FEP here: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
Other fediverse systems (FoundKey, Mitra, Pleroma, Threads, Friendica, Bridgy Fed, Hollo, Iceshrimp) already implemented another FEP: codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src…
So we will have a situation with two concurring systems.
Lazy B0y
in reply to Michael 🇺🇦 • • •@heluecht
thanks for the background info!
allowing reposts only with consent is impossible to enforce because one can always post a screenshot or the url.
@Mastodon
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in reply to Célian Godefroid • • •Célian Godefroid
in reply to Mastodon • • •Kevin P. Fleming
in reply to Mastodon • • •If my server is 4.4 and mastodon.social is 4.5 (pre release) will I still be able to stop someone from quote posting my posts on that server?
(edited to correct version numbers)
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Can you add "following only" and "mutu only" ?
Or is their any technical issue with that ?
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in reply to :blobcatverified2: • • •RE: https://server.example/objects/123in the last line to indicate a quote.el Celio 🇪🇺 🇺🇦
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in reply to Mastodon • • •What is your plan for dealing with the cultural problems this will create? "You can disable quotes, but it won't retroactively remove your post from a harasser's timeline" is bolting the door too late.
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •@Gargron Hmm not sure if i like that or not 😁 very ambivalent about that.
Usually i mute people because i am not interested or annoyed by their content. If other people share it, i'll see a comment out of context that probably makes no sense anymore
Something like "This is a good idea" and then you just don't see what idea is supposed to be good
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Does hidden mean "a URL to the post, not embedded" or "like a content warning saying post from a user you've muted" or "just a blank space"
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in reply to Eugen Rochko • • •Steffo
in reply to One-and-only Allen Versfeld • • •iirc the quote should be gone completely in that case, and there shouldn't be an option to re-expand it
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in reply to Mastodon • • •I'm so excited about this!
Curating news and articles and adding my own commentary/context is my main use case for a public social media presence.
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Is it possible to both reply to an existing post and quote another post?
Useful whenever you want to point someone who asked a question towards another post with an answer.
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in reply to Axel Rauschmayer • • •Claire (testing!!)
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in reply to Claire (testing!!) • • •Quoting other posts - Mastodon documentation
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in reply to Mastodon • • •Now when will you allow longer posts, as numerous other sites - now including X - do?
The longer text can be hidden behind a click, if that would help.
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in reply to Mastodon • • •1) What if someone quotes you, and then quickly blocks you? Will you still be able to remove your post from their quote?
2) Why is this feature opt out? Most people signed up here knowing (and wanting) that there is no quoting feature, so why not opt in? (Or at least a way stricter default setting for quoting?)
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in reply to Mastodon • • •You may sometimes wonder, ‘Why doesn't that work?’ but at first glance, it looks well implemented. Great. Thank you.
@DJGummikuh this is for you (and me) 😉