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Mastodon Engineering Sep 30, 2025

In case you missed it, Quote Posts are live on mastodon.social and mastodon.online — let us know what you think!

This feature has been a long time coming because we wanted to take the time to do it right. Part of that process was sharing our work and getting feedback along the way.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/02/bringing-quote-posts-to-mastodon/

Bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon

Sharing our thinking and progress on bringing Quote Posts to Mastodon, with a goal to create a safe and respectful space for everyone.

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Perrin42 Sep 30, 2025

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Quote functionality needs to be moved from the Boost button to the Reply button. That was a UI/UX decision that's added unnecessary friction to the simplest form of engagement on Mastodon.

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Renaud Chaput

@Perrin42 You can read more about the reasons and constraints around this decision here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36266

If we can find an alternative solution that fits our requirement, we might enable it :)

1-click boosting · Issue #36266 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch We've recently introduced a change to the boosting experience on on recent nightly versions (which have been deployed on Mastodon.social and Mastodon.online), wherein the Boost icon button op...

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