Anil@taylorlorenz the link previews thing is complicated because retrieving the data for them is decentralized, meaning each instance (and sometimes, each *app*!) is hitting the website for the preview info. It’s often been omitted because it can knock small websites offline just dealing with serving previews when a popular user shares a link.
Jay Rosen@anildash I agree with Taylor about quote posts. Basic tool of press criticism for me.
Steven L. Johnson@jayrosen_nyu @anildash As a non-press user, I find QT useful to contextualize content I want to amplify in a way that it is appealing to my followers. I don't know of any simple way to accomplish that for "Toots"
Michael Gisiger 
@steven "appealing to my followers" = not interested in a conversation? Rather talk about than with people?
@gisiger Not that at all! It's about expanding a conversation through bridging. Recontextualization is a way of affirming the person whose message I'm amplifying and giving their ideas an even larger audience
@steven Well, the way QT work over at the birdsite: if the op doesn't follow you, he will never be notified about your quote -> therein lies the inbuilt toxicity of QT. It's basically a form of bullying most of the time.
@gisiger Interesting. That's different than my personal experience. I find it easy to see who has QT'd my tweets as an OP. And, the vast, vast majority of the time it is an innocuous use.
That said, I completely agree that bullying happens all too often on social media. As someone who has researched online communities for nearly 2 decades, I'd contend that's more of an issue of the scalability of human content moderation abilities than it is an inevitable outcome of any particular tech feature.