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 whenever you do an LB, please, *please* link back to the referenced post
because if your LB shows up on our home column, but the boost doesn't (either because someone else boosted it recently, or because our instance blocks the instance it's from), it's really confusing and disorienting
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Lea
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