@Gargron very well thought through. 👍

@Gargron I love that decision. I think it reduces the ease of performative toxicity.

@Gargron 👏👏👏👏👏

@Gargron Is there any chance a federated server might be able to add it as a local feature?

@Gargron This was one of the worst things about Twitter, thank you!

@Gargron a very smart move.
I see people doing exactly this in their behaviour on WhatsApp as their anger levels rise and they deliberately throw abuse at each other or toxic gosdip about someone they know.

@Gargron I think this was such a wise and wide ranging decision! Congratulations! And thank you!

@Gargron provides context on the design choice. A counter point is overlapping audiences who may be interested in the topic, and where the quote is tangential to the original toot

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This is an interesting perspective. I'll ponder it. I'm inclined to think not all quote boosts are evil, ill-intentioned, or inherently destructive, and in the event they are, maybe there are other controls available. But it's a valid position.

@Gargron Excellent logic. Quote replies are the worst. People will screen-shot them and so on, but there's no reason to make it so easy and normalized.

@Gargron I truly like not having a quote a toot feature and agree it's toxic, instead of engaging a person. I still have a hold over saying "account" which imho dehumanizes the person sending a toot. Thank you for not having quote a toot available.

@Gargron interested in the potential this has for doing exactly as you suggest. Might end up being a worthwhile trade off. Always, always, always being willing to revise is how we stay vital, I reckon

@Gargron Attempting to control social media behavior by removing features seems like trying to design a language in which you are unable to articulate bad thoughts, and just as doomed to failure.

Recall that Twitter did not invent RTs and QTs, users did.

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Makes sense. Let's hope people won't resort to screenshots instead.
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@Gargron add the translation option, please 🇮🇹

@Gargron Makes sense. 🙂

@Gargron never had the bird app, seeing stuff like this makes me think I made a great choice to be here though :)

@Gargron This argument makes sense to me, though from experience on the bird app, I would sometimes use "quote" to highlight a post from a different community to my own followers, with a personal message why I consider it important. I might also, for example, translate a post from German or Finnish to my mostly English-speaking followers.

Maybe making "quotable" optional could be an idea? But I also accept the idea that we need to use mastodon differently than what we may be used to.

@Gargron your app is rubbish.

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