Mastodon servers running the experimental ("nightly") version of Mastodon may have quote-tooting now active.
If it is active, it should work by clicking a post's boost 🔁
button, which offers the option to quote if the account has opted into quoting.
Don't worry if it's not yet active for you, this is just on experimental Mastodon as the feature is still being tested.
Quoting will be released in the next server software version (v4.5.0).
(Thanks @NatureMC@mastodon.online for info! 🙏
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services @NatureMC@mastodon.online I don't understand the reasoning behind having posts that are public but designated as not quotable. According to various articles about the feature, the intention is to prevent dunking, but can't determined dunkers just screenshot and/or link to public posts instead of quoting them? I can't be the first person to have thought of this, but I'm not seeing much discussion about it. Any thoughts/insight would be appreciated.
p.s. Even if your server is running the experimental version of Mastodon, it doesn't seem to be letting all accounts use quoting.
I tried with a test account on mastodon.social and there is no way to quote anything, even when trying to quote accounts that have opted into being quoted.
So, in short, please don't have FOMO because it is not really released yet.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Weird. mastodon.social is usually the first to test those things, and yet I got nothing.
Not even settings to set my defaults on that.
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services only posts created after a server enables quote posts will be quotable, so users do not suddenly discover old posts are quoted when they would prefer them not to be. More and more posts will become quotable as servers update to a version supporting the feature.
@renchap@oisaur.com
Thank you for the extra info, that's really useful to know, it will make things clearer when quoting launches 🙏
It sounds similar to how posts work with the full text search opt-in?
Good luck with the roll-out when the full release happens! 👍
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
The settings for quoting default is under Preferences > Other if you're on the normal release version of Mastodon.
If you're on the experimental version it's in Preferences > Posting Defaults
But yeah, I tried a test account on mastodon.social and it didn't have quoting yet either. I wonder if they've restricted which accounts can quote while they're testing?
@FediTips@social.growyourown.services Right.
It's on posting defaults. I read "who can quote" as "who can boost".
I need rest. 😵
Being unable to quote is factual, though.
@jorgecandeias@mastodon.social
Yeah, the quoting seems to be restricted to just certain accounts at the moment.
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