Ed BottI would really like to quote-tweet this, adding my 2 cents and amplifying Taylor's words.
But I can't. And that's unfortunate.
Dave Kearns@edbott
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Andy Daitsman@adaitsman @dak3 It was ... half my point.
Anyone determined enough can figure out a way, but it should be easier than this.
deltatux@edbott @adaitsman @dak3
This is a debate that's been hotly debated on the dev level. There have been many proposals to implement this feature but Eugen has apparently argued that he didn't want to include it because it would spread toxicity & cyberbullying. This debate is still ongoing, maybe as more people demand it, it might come?
So far none of the forks have included this feature either.
Sadly for me, my instance runs on Akkoma (fork of Pleroma) which does support quote posting but since Mastodon doesn't support it, it won't render my post. Since most of my follows & followers use Mastodon, it effectively renders the feature useless since I can't use it...
This is a debate that's been hotly debated on the dev level. There have been many proposals to implement this feature but Eugen has apparently argued that he didn't want to include it because it would spread toxicity & cyberbullying. This debate is still ongoing, maybe as more people demand it, it might come?
So far none of the forks have included this feature either.
Sadly for me, my instance runs on Akkoma (fork of Pleroma) which does support quote posting but since Mastodon doesn't support it, it won't render my post. Since most of my follows & followers use Mastodon, it effectively renders the feature useless since I can't use it...
@deltatux @dak3 @adaitsman Yeah, I feel your pain. I understand the objections, but honestly, the abuse of quote tweets is more about the author than the format.
Hope we figure this out.
Sam Thurston 
@edbott @deltatux @dak3 @adaitsman this is very much a "guns don't kill people" argument.
The undesirable behavior is more difficult and less frequent if you don't provide a means to do it quickly and easily.