Julian FietkauThis bureaucracy is necessary for verification of consent, but it is a bit of a pain for software implementers who want to give blanket quoting permissions, like bot authors.
Making your account quotable by Mastodon takes more than a simple declaration: it has to have the ability to respond affirmatively to quote requests, and to confirm or deny the legitimacy of existing quotes.
Generally this means having to at least keep track of everyone who has quoted you.
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