Mastodon really has become the new matrix ...
Mastodon really has become the new matrix ...
Whatever happens, stay alive. Don't die before you're dead. Don't lose yourself, don't lose hope, don't lose direction.
Stay alive, with yourself, with every cell of your body, with every fiber of your skin.
Stay alive, learn, study, think, read, build, invent, create, speak, write, dream, design.
-Virginia Woolf
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#advice #inspire #encouragement #stayalive #quotes #quoteposts #books #bookstadon #bookstodon
Tiny Mastodon Tip About Quote Posts
If your instance is already running the newly released version Mastodon 4.4,
Know that in preparation for the full implementation, the team has included a consent setting for the upcoming Quote Post feature.
While quoting a post will not
be available as a native feature until Mastodon 4.5 later this year, it's wonderful that you can adjust if you want in or not before it even arrives!
HOW TO
1. From the web interface, go to "Preferences" on the right-side menu. Then click on "Other" under the "Preferences" section
2. If your instance was newly updated, you should now see an option in "Posting Defaults" for "Who can quote" (see image below)
Note: If the option isn't there, your instance has not updated to the version including it yet. Be patient, it will likely be added in the weeks to come.
3. From the "Who can quote" drop-menu, you can choose either "Everyone", "Followers and mentioned users", or "Only mentioned users"
4. Once the next version is released, you will be ready for Quote Posts! No matter your choices
5. Enjoy the freedom of choosing the features you wish to participate in (or not)!
For more information on Quote Posts, you can read Mastodon's announcement blog about it here: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/
Lost in the news about #QuotePosts in the new version of #Mastodon is the new "featured profiles" feature.
It's like the MySpace top-8 friends list!
Somebody #quotePost this so I can see what #quotePosts look like in #mastodon!
Are you planning on allowing
your posts to be quoted by anyone once the Mastodon feature gets fully implemented later this year?
Well now, finally
TechCrunch: #Mastodon’s latest update readies the app for #QuotePosts, revamps design
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/mastodons-latest-update-readies-the-app-for-quote-posts-revamps-design/
It's coming
"Support for verifying remote quotes according to FEP-044f and displaying them in the Web UI has been implemented.
Quoting other people is not implemented yet, and it is currently not possible to mark your own posts as allowing quotes. However, a new “Who can quote” setting has been added to the “Posting defaults” section of the user settings. This setting allows you to set a default that will be used for new posts made on Mastodon 4.5 and newer, when quote posts will be fully implemented."
Cool.
Mastodon is planning to release a new update, version 4.4, with the first beta now available. The biggest feature of the patch is that it will display quoted posts. The highly requested feature will only be fully available in version 4.5, which will include the ability for users to create quoted posts. Mastodon CTO Renaud Chaput says that he expects version 4.4 to be released at the end of June, with version 4.5 scheduled a few months later.
Mastodon will implement quote-posts starting with v4.4, which is already available as a preview on the flagship instance Mastodon.social.
I use Bridgy Fed to automatically crosspost from Bsky – including quote-posts – to the Fediverse.
I’m curious what’s causing the “pending approval” message …
@HistoPol still a little short on examples but here is one of someone quote posting their own older post and another where the quoted person has probably not enabled the BlueSky bridge.
It might also be that only these self-quotes work for now because I've not really been able to find different examples and some #quoteposts that show up fine from Threads on Sharkey only show the "pending approval" on mastodon.social.
edit: it's the latter see https://mastodon.social/@renchap@oisaur.com/114625712667459763 from @renchap
@paul
@paul @HistoPol Just as a followup today I am seeing #quoteposts on mastodon.social (mainly bridged Bluesky posts) so it seems like the display part is now live here.
@aussocialadmin @MastodonEngineering Appreciate you sharing this information, but I shouldn't have to *disable* it. #quotePosts were supposed to be #optIn, not opt-out.
Finally! --The long overdue #QuotePosts will be phased in on #Mastodon:
Yeah there have been specific apps that have implemented #QuotePosts for some time now -- and used that as a "marketing" feature
But of course there's a difference between the user-space "app" level and the overall-global instance distribution level
This will become Yet Another(tm) #Mastodon Advanced Feature(tm) that newcomers and the experienced alike will have to find in some Preferences --> Whatever location and turn on or off as they see fit
Who says Mastodon is hard to use? /snark
And what are "Carousel Slides" and when do we get to see them?
Are these for Pinned Posts, or nah?
Yeah, agree, particularly after having witnessed all the grief (and griefing / brigading) caused by #QuotePosts back on Twitter
cc @stefan
"- "experimental support for verifying and displaying remote quote posts""
I've watched as this very specific Issue worked its way through the #Mastodon #Github
"remote quote posts"
I've seen no mention (perhaps I missed it) of who exactly gets to --> create <-- these "remote quote posts"
"remote" implies no one on my local instance
This was discussed extensively in the #Mastodon #Github some (now) years ago
By allowing a third party to add a #CW to an existing, published post after the fact, it allows the new editor to completely invert the meaning of the original post by adding a label that is the inverse of the original content
Whether some individual "apps" allow it is irrelevant
And yeah, also see #QuotePosts
well would you look at that #quoteposts