@Gargron Thanks for considering it. #QuoteReply instead of #QuotePost might also be an option. Whether displayed above or below OP, replies won't get forked. Moreover limiting and/or hiding replies would be great.

@Gargron If You planning adding QT functionality please make it optional on server and user level as well.

@Gargron I don't like the idea, but people will always find a way to quote toots. Better to have an official way instead, which fits better the user experience of the service.

These quote posts should count as Boost and should appear as Reply to the original toot. This way we wouldn't break the communication flow. Keeping the thread intact is important.

@Gargron You can now build a great solution or have third party apps build a shitty workaround solution themselves.

@Gargron
Please, use the same values that already exist with other softwares.
"quote_id" when posting and "quote" like for "reblog" in status object.

@Gargron thank you for listening to the community! Quotes are an essential part of multi-party conversations, and conversations are a much richer way to communicate than people reacting and boosting a few influencers posts. Because Mastodon doesn't have algorithms that optimize for toxicity, the threat is smaller.

@Gargron please don't. One of the reasons users came to Mastodon before birdsite exodus was the absence of echo chamber. I read the discussions to add quoting but to my understanding it was requested just to make Mastodon as similar to users' former platform as possible. Mastodon stands out as a social platform of its own strengths. Please let's not drag in baggage of other sites just to make it less diverse.

@Gargron There we go. "opting" is for few. The rest will be Twitterisierung. But as a newbie, too, I should not have a horse in the race. The silent bad faith actors will enjoy how loud "good" actors are helping them. But difficult of course simply by loud demand in the wave of gentrification by (us) twitter movers (and workarounds punching holes). "I want" vs restraints normally has a forseeable outcome.

@Gargron 😱 I missed it initially, but got used to it pretty quickly and see the benefits of not having it 😔

@Gargron Please don't, this lovely place would likely turn into another rage-inducing hell like Twitter.

@Gargron ...make the ability to be QT'ed an opt-in feature, granular? Never, Always, or Selected (Follows, Followers, As Hoc)?

@Gargron Since pretty much moving to Mastodon 100%, I haven't missed them one little bit. Whenever I do do dip my toe back into the other place, I'm confronted with retweets of the worst people (who I'm here to get away from), amplified in order to decry them. It's to get precious likes and follows, of course, but it means the worst tweets get the most amplified by both followers and detractors.

@Gargron plz! This is the #1 feature I’d love to see Mastodon adopt. Glad to see you’re coming around to it. 👍👍

@Gargron better make it smth to toggle because quote retweets were used to incite harassment. As in, if i want my post to be quote-posted then i should be able to turn that on/off.

@Gargron Yeah I think that’s the right call.

@Gargron I don't like the quoting feature, that kept me out if Twitter. Please, if you set a quoting feature, make out/off the default for our toots, and give us some control over quotes showed in out timeline, it could become endless.

@Gargron I still don’t really like the idea of quote posting. I think it makes the platform less social. When I was quoted on twitter it felt more like someone was pointing me out in a crowd to make some comment to their friends (whether it was positive or negative). Replies are just inherently more conversational which based on my priorities is better.

@Gargron please make sure we can opt-out from reading them too (just like we can hide boosts from certain people).

@Gargron 🧡

@Gargron Serious question: can I help code this feature if you decide to allow it? I’ve been looking for a reason to get more involved with the project.