We’ve thought carefully about building this feature, and we hope it broadens your use of Mastodon!

However, you're in control: if you don’t want your content to be quoted, you can find the setting to prevent future quotes of your content under Settings -> Preferences -> Other (in Mastodon 4.4).

There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.

Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quote-posts/

@duc @kolya @Mastodon I would simply like anything that I post which gets some traction filled with replies “well actually” or explaining my post to me. Or filling the replies with more unrelated misery about something bad that happened to me. Or having arguments.

The issue is never regular posts. It is important sometimes to indicate to people outside my circle that they don’t need to weigh in on something or I’m not asking for advice.

@dev @kolya @Mastodon I see.

re: plans, in the technical sense, this needs to be implemented at the ActivityPub protocol level first, and while the contributors and maintainers agreed to the idea of reply controls, there are still some roadblocks on how it should be implemented.

FEP-5624: https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-5624-per-object-reply-control-policies/2723