@futurebird (Google-translated English, sorry) Perhaps important details are not being adequately addressed in this "quoting" - #qt debate.

1) #fediverse is not just Mastodon.

2) #mastodon is the gateway to #fediverse for many people. Accustomed as they are to centralized social networking, certain people demand #mastodon developers make changes to bring it up to par with the Twitter experience, as if #mastodon is the only tool available to communicate on #fediverse - which it is not.

3) There are options in #fediverse for those who want to use "quote-toot", such as #Friendica (friendi.ca/).

4) Those using #friendica continue to talk to all other #fediverse profiles, including those on #mastodon, without any problem. (I am using #friendica right now, and communicating very well with those of you who are on #mastodon .)

5) If that is the case, why spend so much time on stressful discussions, when there is a tool already available and at hand to do whatever one wants?

@futurebird (Google-translated English again, sorry) Perhaps something of the tone of the message was lost in the translation from Portuguese to English, but no, that is not at all what I mean.

The "good side" of the #fediverse is that the size of one "part" has no relevance when all "parts" communicate with each other, without technical barriers other than those established by the moderators of each server.

My behavior when dealing with new technological tools is always to look for existing alternatives. I quickly located the absence of #qt , among other things, and looked for other alternatives in the #fediverse. So I migrated from #mastodon to #friendica (where I'm writing from right now), and I'm finding it a great change. I brought here all my contact list from #mastodon, and I keep interacting normally with everyone, as if I were still in #mastodon. Same contacts, same TL, with additional tools (calendar, events, more characters per post, etc.). It works for what I need, and is fine. But this may not be the case for you.

You can, and should, post your opinion about anything regarding #mastodon . What I meant, from the beginning, is simple: #mastodon is not the whole #fediverse . There are already alternatives with #qt , like #friendica. Using them might be a shorter way to get what you want, instead of convincing the developers of #mastodon to do something they may not want, or to create a fork of #mastodon that is the same as the original in almost everything. If that's not it, then excuse me for the intrusion.