fedi software that supports quotes do not display it in the same way, so while people might suggest "ok quote them then?" it doesn't work. the point was that you would see "x reblogged" and it would have their own post but underneath was an addition to it. I really like how tumblr reblogs work.

Instead of twitter's

quote text
original post

it follows the scheme of

original post quote textunlike replies they were considered their own posts. if you wanted to avoid "hijacking" someone's post you would use hashtags because the next reblog would strip the tags. it took me far too long to realize that's why people would use tags.

Say that there's someone who's out there advertising their artwork. I write a witty reply and people share that. People will just reblog that into oblivion and the artist doesn't get the same level of attention. If I instead used hashtags to write my witty remark it would still be there but when people reblogged it that remark is gone, giving people direct attention. It's why the usage of #prev is so prevalent (prev standing for the person you reblogged from). People legitimately would carry full on conversations through tags. #i-find-this-to-be-a-funny-joke #prev-i-agree-with-you. It is so weird to me to use tags in other ways (I've gotten used to it, and there still was the usage of like # nsfw at the bottom of your post to categorize it)