Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/

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.

docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quo

@Mastodon is there a plan to have similar control over replies ? The quote post controls seem pretty handy. It would be very useful to limit replies to followers or no one

@dev @Mastodon you can already do that by limiting visibility to followers.

@kolya @Mastodon sure, but it is a different use case to express something publicly that you don’t want strangers (or anyone) replying to

@dev @Mastodon if you want unidirectional communication, you have a lot of options. but that's not what a social network is for. it's not social.

@kolya @Mastodon I’m not sure if you’ve used other social networks like twitter or bluesky, both of them have the feature and it is widely used.

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@dev @kolya @Mastodon It's also unenforceable on a decentralised network

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