The most hilarious thing about the ongoing QT debate On Here is the implied assumption that introducing QTs to mastodon will result in a similar use case for QTs on twitter.

I say that this is hilarious because it ignores things like federation, like content moderation, like the fine grained control that moderators and instance admins have over content on their instances.

In short, it assumes that the tool will function the same way in the mastodon ecosystem as it does on twitter.

. @shengokai
Even if the qt function was identical here as on Twitter, the issue isn't the tool, it's (apparently) how some people used it on the other site. Personally, maybe I didn't follow the wrong people but I only ever saw qt used usefully, eg to share an announcement about a new bus service and add a comment about your experience with it. Heaps easier than retweeting then tweeting a comment both to keep the association and make it easier to share both. Maybe the issue over there was the moderation rather than the feature?