The best posts aren't the ones that rack up viral engagement, they're the ones that only get a handful faves, all from your very favorite mufos
QTs are overall bad & their absense helps make Mastodon 'nicer' than Twitter
as an ex-troll I know QTs are THE main weapon in the arsenal of harassment, call it the 'LibsOfTicToc Effect'.
On Twitter a malicious QT by a large account with high engagement exposes the OP to 10's or 100's of thousands of hostile eyes, with predictable results. The scale is different here, but the usage would not be