{"id":141948,"date":"2025-09-14T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141948\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T06:18:10","slug":"mastodon-rolls-out-features-to-stop-nasty-online-dunks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141948\/","title":{"rendered":"Mastodon Rolls Out Features to Stop Nasty Online &#8216;Dunks&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t miss out on our latest stories. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=pcmag.com\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Add PCMag<\/a> as a preferred source on Google.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve all seen how social media platforms like X are used to \u201cdunk\u201d on others, by resharing posts with a (usually snarky or incendiary) comment to draw in likes and engagement. But the open-source X alternative Mastodon has rolled out some innovative new features to protect against malicious \u201cdunking\u201d when users quote-share each other. <\/p>\n<p>The platform <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.joinmastodon.org\/user\/quote-posts\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"(Opens in a new tab)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">will now support<\/a> quote posts for the first time this week, starting on its largest servers mastodon.online and mastodon.social and more widely following Mastodon\u2019s upcoming 4.5 software update. But users will have control over how they are quoted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" class=\"\" data-image-loader=\"https:\/\/i.pcmag.com\/imagery\/articles\/05aWKcrCQogq4ZYV1sBZZVh-2.png\" data-lazy-sized=\"\" alt=\"Mastodon Quote Image\" data-image-path=\"articles\/05aWKcrCQogq4ZYV1sBZZVh-2.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n    (Credit: Mastodon )\n<\/p>\n<p>Users will receive a notification when their post is quote-shared and will be able to remove the original post from the other user\u2019s post. Users will also be able to adjust their settings to stop a particular post from being quote-shared in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, users will be able to permanently block a user from quote-sharing any of their posts, as a hedge against malicious dunks. 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