Decentralized open source social network Mastodon is rolling out its latest release , version 4.5, which brings support for Quote Posts to all server operators, along with other features for admins, conversation improvements, and more.

The addition of quote posts is one of the bigger changes to how Mastodon’s social network operates, as the social network attempts to compete against larger rivals, like X and Threads. Quoting can be a conversation driver and is considered a baseline feature for text-first social networks. But Mastodon wanted to ensure the feature launched with more user protections so as not to change the culture of its network.

On X, quote posts (formerly known as retweets when X was Twitter) contributed to a culture of “ dunking ,” where users would often deride oth

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