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@dak3 Not really. No one can interact with the original post, or reply to the author, or even see if it's been edited!

@edbott @dak3 @taylorlorenz At Twitter, we started to see people opt to tweet screenshots of tweets primarily because they didn’t want to notify the original author or to limit the amplification they were already providing by faux quoting tweeting it. While I don’t think replicating QT as is would be helpful, it is worthwhile to explore ways to improve upon it instead of a wholesale nonstarter.

@edbott @dak3 @taylorlorenz It’s also worth noting that QT was originally architected as just a permalink to the tweet at the end of a tweet. We started to render an embed of the tweet because we saw people doing this to talk about other tweets just like they talked about web page links. There’s nothing stopping Mastodon clients from doing something similar when encountering a link to a Mastodon post in someone’s post.