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   Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 02:59:34 JST Renaud Chaput

   I said it several times, but with Ivory's latest announcement, let me repeat it: we (the Mastodon team) are working on implementing Quote Posts. This is a much more complex feature than showing a preview for a link to a post, which is done at the moment by multiple clients.

   It is a complex task and we have been working on defining the feature and the protocol-level details for some time. We are moving forward, and there are fewer hard questions to answers, but progress is there.

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     El Duvelle (elduvelle@neuromatch.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:09:18 JST El Duvelle

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     @renchap very cool! Looking forward to it being available to all :)

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:17:39 JST Renaud Chaput

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     As always, you can help by contributing, either:
     - with code, we are mostly looking for people able to contribute a "large” features after getting guidance from us
     - with money, by donating to the project, which allows us to hire more people: https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:17:40 JST Renaud Chaput

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     To answer some common questions I get:

     Yes, we want to have proper safety features for Quote Posts. We got enough feedback from Xitter to know how they can be used for harassment. Maybe this is not a concert to you, but it is for us.

     Yes, it takes time, but we are a very small team, with only one full-time developer for the backend. At the moment, handling the day-to-day (reviews, bug fixes, security) is already more than what we can handle, so everything takes more time that we would like.

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:17:41 JST Renaud Chaput

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     Here are a sample of the hard questions we need to have answers for:
     - Can you quote a post when replying to someone
     - Is pasting a link into a post quoting? What if there are multiple posts linked?
     - How to handle implementations, instances or clients not supporting quote posts
     - How does this interact with moderation? Blocking?
     - How do we handle ActivityPub implementations with slightly different formats, like if they support quoting multiple posts in the same status?

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     Renaud Chaput (renchap@oisaur.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 04:17:42 JST Renaud Chaput

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     Once implemented, you can expect proper support in the API, web frontend, and the official mobile clients (that we develop), and we intend to publish the API details in advance so any other client can support them.
     We will also be publishing FEPs to ensure that this becomes a standard that can be supported by every ActivityPub implementation.
     It will (if all goes fine) support notifications when someone quotes you, as well as controlling who can quote your posts (everyone, nobody, mutuals…)

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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:28:23 JST 

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     • Edward Sneeden
     @sneeden He raised a good question about attaching quote to replies. It should work with current implementation, even though it's not available in any current frontend.
     
     RT: https://mugicha.club/objects/31d46fd1-444e-4239-a957-264ec55f190b
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     Edward Sneeden (sneeden@iddqd.social)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:28:24 JST Edward Sneeden

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     @renchap just let Alex Gleason submit a PR to Mastodon's repo.
     Let the GLUSSY quotes be free
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      (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 08:30:38 JST 

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     • Edward Sneeden
     @sneeden Seems to work just by adding quote_id in the CommonAPI call in iEX. Should work with proper API requests too, I was just too lazy to whip a curl command.
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     Alex Gleason (alex@gleasonator.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Feb-2024 09:12:57 JST Alex Gleason

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     @renchap Did you know Fedibird implemented quote posts on August 19, 2021? That was 908 days ago, 21,792 hours ago, 1,307,520 minutes ago, or 78,451,200 seconds ago.
     
     See here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/compare/main...fedibird:mastodon:main
     
     It was actually pretty easy to cherry-pick these commits into Truth Social. It took about 1 hour.