I remember Twitter when quote retweets were manual, and I felt like I had to really force myself to scan headlines for something to talk about and then bring that to Twitter if I wanted a presence there.

I did it, bc I wanted to use Twitter for my organizing, but it was so unfun.

What really got me to the point of *enjoying* Twitter was the back-and-forth that quote-retweets allowed.

It lets you very easily reply in a way that ropes your own community into the conversation without cutting off the OP or appearing to plagiarize them.

So now I have "post to mastodon" on my weekday daily to do list, but it still feels like a chore.

Part of it is that I haven't built a ton of community here yet.

But part of it is also that I think the lack of this functionality makes that community-building process less intuitive and more difficult.

@emmalbriant @gwensnyder
The alternative that I've heard is to reply to the toot, and then boost your reply. If I understand it correctly (I'm new here and might NOT understand), your followers then see your reply and the toot you're replying to.

What would quote-tooting add?

@emmalbriant @BlueDot @gwensnyder

Would you be satisfied with the link copy-paste mechanism if the card/preview was turned into a nested view of the linked toot instead of the current hundreds-character preview?