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They don't even need to do that, they can just simply choose to deploy an #Akkoma or #Firefish instance that already have those features... You don't need to modify #Mastodon to do something that already exists on the fediverse. If they don't want to deploy their own instance, they can join existing ones running these implementations.
Akkoma & Firefish include quote boosts/quote posts, rich text formatting, full text search and more. Firefish even has the option to import posts from other instances including from Mastodon as well.
Mastodon has the most "market share" but they're definitely not the only #ActivityPub microblogging implementation out there. Others exist and already have features that are missing on Mastodon. Unfortunately because of Mastodon's sheer size, people have equated it to the entire fediverse, similar to how Kleenex is to facial tissues.
I think Big Media is mainly still not sold on the idea of decentralized social networking and they don't believe the audience is there. They seem to have hopped on to Threads pretty fast. I'm interested to see how BBC's experiment on the fediverse plays out, hopefully they have a permanent presence here.