People wanting QTs for "good" reasons, so they can add a comment to what they're boosting, just haven't learned how we've been doing it here all along, without the need for a QT function.
How it works:
1) Reply to the post you want to QT with a comment, such as "Boosting so my followers can also respond to this!" My opinion is ..."
2) Boost your REPLY. Your followers will see it in their timeline. When they click on it they'll see the OP above your reply.
Done! 🙂
Comments about not wanting to clutter the OP's thread with a side-discussion or tangent are making a good point!
What we do on Mastodon in these cases is we boost their post, then immediately make a new post of our own starting with "LB:" meaning we are referring to our last boost. It's a little more effort for your followers to scroll up to your last boost, but that's one way to handle this.
Sorry I didn't have space in my OP to mention that!
@leadore I think the biggest problem with that (and one of the things that led to the development of QT vs just “LRT…”) is that separating the post from the context gets a little sticky in places, especially once your “LB:” post gets boosted by someone else which means the context gets further separated and harder to track down if you have a posting spree
To keep the context, you could screenshot, but that breaks all the post/user security so eww no, or include a link to the original
@emery @winnie @leadore For lack of a better analogy... low-friction interaction is my equivalent to alt text on images.
And I don't expect the fediverse to cater to me, just as some people don't do alt text for their own disability or mental health reasons. That's fair! But the higher friction caused by the lack of easy QRT tools is a thing that reminds me repeatedly that the local space isn't designed for people like /me/, deliberately or otherwise.
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