When we released post editing for #Mastodon, we first released a version that supported processing and displaying edits incoming from other servers, before releasing a version that flipped a switch allowing anyone to make edits. We're taking an identical approach with quote posts, as the upcoming 4.4 version of Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software. Once this is widely deployed on the network, 4.5 will bring the long awaited ability to quote posts.
If you have a fediverse account, you can quote this note from your own instance. Search https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/114625891198289108 on your instance and quote it. (Note that quoting is not supported in Mastodon.)
>Mastodon will begin displaying quote posts from other servers and software
Anyone knows what it really means?
Initial version of their FEP was based on FEP-e232, but in the end they decided to drop it and introduce a new property, quote. I guess "other servers" actually means "other Mastodon servers".
The reason for introducing a new property, by the way, was
We believe each of those to have significant drawbacks, such as re-using a namespace that has no definition for them, implying the value is an URL or URI, or using an unusual naming scheme
So now we all need to support an additional representation because the color of the bikeshed was wrong.
RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Gargron/statuses/114625891198289108