From ec43853fef34409fedc1145eb83a94d70948936f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ClearlyClaire Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 19:27:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] fep-044f: Remove exception allowing mentioned users to quote without approval (#660) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit This exception had two purposes: 1. Provide consistency with the exception in other policies defined by GoToSocial 2. Provide an “escape hatch” to mentioned users allowing them to react to mentions of them However: 1. GoToSocial's interaction policies define this exception only for replies, and not for the other sub-policies, so not having this exception for quotes would not actually make it less consistent 2. While useful, this “escape hatch” is not necessary, as it is still possible to reply to such posts 3. this exception reduces the usefulness of the quote authorization feature a little, and adds both implementation and UX complexity Therefore, we think this exception causes more issues than it solves, and we are considering removing it, even though it is a significant change to a FEP draft that has been largely unchanged for a while. Co-authored-by: Claire Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/pulls/660 Co-authored-by: ClearlyClaire Co-committed-by: ClearlyClaire --- fep/044f/fep-044f.md | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fep/044f/fep-044f.md b/fep/044f/fep-044f.md index ac60cb4..f43bc95 100644 --- a/fep/044f/fep-044f.md +++ b/fep/044f/fep-044f.md @@ -368,7 +368,6 @@ Depending on whether they already sent a `Create` activity to the quote post's i When processing a quote post from a remote actor, a recipient MUST consider them unapproved unless any of those conditions apply: - the author of the quote post and that of the original post are the same (same `attributedTo`) -- the author of the quote post is mentioned in the original post - `quoteAuthorization` exists, can be dereferenced and is a valid `QuoteAuthorization` activity for this object ## Revocation of a quote post