JFPugetFor all those who insist on having quote tweets on mastodon, read why it is denied: https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/07/cage-the-mastodon/
Lucas Beyer@jfpuget I still disagree with it. Screenshot below is the argument for not supporting them.
I want to use them for exactly the mentioned reason, but in a positive way! I want to add my comment to the quoted post while sharing it with my followers and giving proper credit to the author. This is brother achieved by screenshot not by replies, but it's common academic discourse.
Sounds like the author has some bad experience with trolls and only sees the potential for abuse, that's sad :-/
@lb I'm sure you'd use them in a positive way.
But it is also true that they are heavily used to mock (if not harass) the poster on twitter.
I personally was victim of RTs by people who blocked me and wrote bad things in their quote RTs.
If you can find a way to prevent bad use of RT then you should ping the mastodon leaders.
@jfpuget I don't think there is a way to prevent something bad to be said wherever something can be said.
So the only thing this is about is whether this feature would be used more positively or negatively, compared to other features. And I don't think there's any data on this, so at the end of the day, it's about everyone's (or rather, the dev's) anecdotes and personal preferences.
Though it could be a fun side project to gather this data from twitter at scale!