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I've made a deliberate choice against a quoting feature because it inevitably adds toxicity to people's behaviours. You are tempted to quote when you should be replying, and so you speak at your audience instead of with the person you are talking to. It becomes performative. Even when doing it for "good" like ridiculing awful comments, you are giving awful comments more eyeballs that way. No quote toots. Thank's

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:tardis: Stardenver

@gargron accepted^^

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Marco Zehe

@Gargron I think this is good. Thanks for sticking with this philosophy!

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Meg

@Gargron love this

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Lyric, Destroyer of Worlds

@Gargron excellent point and excellent design choice

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26x1

@Gargron at the very first I had not understood.
Then I very quickly felt so relieved by the absence of mocking, judging, cynicism that the “quoting feature" seems to imply.

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juurd

Dit antwoord op een veelgestelde vraag, hierboven, schreef oprichter van Mastodon in 2018

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Carolle U

@Gargron

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clauci2nd

@Gargron
a great decision, allowing, promoting way better communication.
thank you.

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Virginia Wood

@Gargron I used quote tweets mainly to spread news, wisdom, and humor. . . but I admit it was lazy. I like the boost thing here better 👍

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Jessica (she/her/ella) 🦕

@Gargron
I appreciate this and tout this as a feature that is worth switching for. Mastodon is about conversation with one another.

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ilyess

@Gargron One of my favourite #mastodon features is the absence of the quoting feature.

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Ethan Black

@Gargron I think this is a good idea!
I'd like to respectfully disagree about ridiculing awful comments being good, though. Even if the comment you are ridiculing is genuinely immoral, it is still toxic.

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Babisuri

@Gargron people is going to start using the good old "RT@random: toot // <--- this guy knows nothing" as if it were Twitter in 2010.

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Saphire Lattice

@Gargron So... What about the fact that people can just go "last repost" and do it without even a link?

With a proper QRT, you can at least allow setting up privacy for that...

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Ty Smith :verified: :verified:

@Gargron One of the issues that Twitter ran into is that the users performed certain interactions despite the tooling, and those took off before Twitter followed with better UX in the app. For example, hash tags threaded tweets.

I would wonder if quote retweets still happen with a slightly different mechanism. ie : RT: "Copied Text" or screenshots.

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MinnesotaMinn

@Gargron I support this decision

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Agas Ramirez

@Gargron you're actually right. i was looking for an "RT" function, didn't find one, so i replied to the thread. Came to the realization organically before reading this toot.

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Rebecca

@Gargron My problem with this explanation is how it ignores whole use cases, for when you want to talk about something someone else raised without derailing the conversation already happening around it. Multiple reply threads have some serious issues too.

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Johannes :verified:

@Gargron thank you for that. Coming from twitter, the difference in discourse is noticeable and it’s great to see that some intent and thought went into that.

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Noah Mittman

@Gargron I've always felt that quote tweets was one of the early turning points of interactions going downhill on Twitter, and I'm glad we won't be seeing quote toots around here 👍🏾

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