Sorry, I should be clear: fine-grained policies are still policies.
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Sorry, I should be clear: fine-grained policies are still policies. It's the responsibility of various softwares to give people the tools to control their communications as they wish, and if softwares only allow for broad policies like "completely sever communication with this actor", then this is a problem that needs to be fixed more generally.
WRT the actual text being made "less aggressive", sure, that seems like a good idea. There's a very slight distinction I'd make between "quote this post" versus "create posts that get interpreted as quote posts", but I recognize that this might be too fine a distinction for most people to care about. To me, I make the distinction because I want to distinguish between the post and the Quote activity. So it might be more something like:
Servers not implementing this FEP can still make posts that match our representation of a "quote post". We cannot control the behavior of any other software, but we can apply local policies such as requiring stamps before rendering such representations as a "quote post", or otherwise making UI distinctions between "approved quotes" and "unapproved quotes".
