Good. I get why they were originally resistant to it, but fringe, outlier situations can be dealt with when you have actual mods maintaining things. The reason quote-retweeting was used so heavily for bullying on Twitter was because there were no repercussions for it, and Twitter never enforced their bullying rules for the practice. Mastodon instances have their own mods enforcing their own rules, to a much better degree than Twitter ever has. While the potential for bullying still exists, it's far easier to mitigate on Mastodon.

It’s a good feature that’s only controversial because it was used on a shitty platform

Good feature, I don't see any problems.

1. Quotes are controversial because Twitter people used it to foster toxicity. However, on Mastodon, we have actually active mods. Ideally, you should be self-hosting your own instance anyways and be your own mod.

2. Also, it seems very well implemented, much better than on Twitter: Mastodon says it will allow users to control whether their posts can be quoted. Also, users will be notified if someone quotes them, and they’ll be able to withdraw their post from the quoted context at any time.

3. Most importantly, Mastodon has an active developer who responds to feedback, and PULL REQUESTS, ISSUE TRACKERS, AND GITHUB DISCUSSIONS exist!

4. If you still completely disagree with this decision, fork the project, create a patch, and start your own server with the patched Mastodon!

What's wrong with quote posts?

I'm glad they're adding it; I also hope that they take Bsky's ability to detach yourself from the quoted post too.

Much needed feature

I'm shocked people are actually against Mastodon adding a common feature. Seems like one of the gripes with it for ages has been the lack of features and polish (I personally stopped using Mastodon in part because of this)

Glad they are going ahead with it...it doesn't really hurt anything and isn't any different than just screenshotting posts.

Bluesky has a feature where you can stop someone from quoting your post if you don’t like what they are saying.

It seems the solution is to allow a user to choose whether to be quote-posted, perhaps down to a post-level.

That has implementation hurdles, I’m sure, but I think we should try to build it right this time.

As much as I love the Fediverse, it's amazing that Mastodon users see this feature as a threat. By the way, any decent app implemented quoting years ago.

Okay, I get that they're gonna add something that allows your posts not to be quoted, but what's stopping me from just screenshoting a toot from someone that doesn't wanna be quoted and adding that image to a toot of my own and using it as a quoted toot? Besides the effort of course.

Then we can finally get people to write

Don't subtoot me bro

Is that the controversial part?

Can someone please tell me what a quote post is? Maybe I'm blind but I don't see an explanation for what it actually is anywhere.

Submit feedback and pull requests to improve the feature to make it much less controversial.

at first i was again it, but there's no action on mastodn, it's a very slow closed system, and quote toots might open it up

Other fediverse platforms have had it for awhile. Not sure why so many feel so stuck with Mastodon. There are alternatives.