>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