@Gargron appreciate the thought and insight that provides context to a bold decision...we shall speak as an individual to provide information and context

@Gargron did you consider making it optional, like allowing a user to decide whether to allow their posts to be quoted? And if not, why not put that decision into the user’s hands?

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@Gargron I am starting to feel the same about private group chats

@Gargron i detested the quoting feature on twitter, used to parsphrase and spin others words, and mock people sickened me

@Gargron found this initially hard as an academic who’s used to summarising the importance / relevance of a post as I re toot. But replies work fine too… I know you’ve moved mountains for us newbies this last month 🙏 … but cheeky request would it be possible to have access to GIFs in longer term ?

@Gargron this feels like a good one to recycle periodically

@Gargron wise wise choice

@Gargron That's one of the biggest problems I have with the #birdSite, which I think is about to become WAY more performative.

@Gargron I was already wondering...

@Gargron I've written this elsewhere, but I suspect with correct moderation tools, we could solve the pile-on problem whilst still having quote toots.

E.g., if a quote toot, allow reporting for misuse / abuse, and then provide a means to disable quoting for a user for a time period / indefinitely, and only allow quoting of public content

Additionally, education can help change the message here: act bad & you loose the privilege. Potentially even "disable quotes" as a setting.

@Gargron Well then we're just going to have to get around it by posting links to the toots we're remarking on, aren't we?

@Gargron I love this. Choices like these are what distinguish Mastodon from “it’s the bird app, only I’m in charge.”

@Gargron I agree but didn't think I would at first. Replies are treated as first-class-citizen toots here so it isn't really an issue. You gain the same effect without forking the conversation.

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Thank you so you so much for continuing to choose not to build this feature into this instance.

I like Mastodon as it is. I don't want it to become "New Twitter".

Besides, if one needs to "quote toot", then they can take an image and type in what it says on the image description.

I consider that level of effort gives a person time to decide if it's true, helpful, important, necessary, and/or kind.

@Gargron not sure I agree with this yet, but I think it’s a bold stance and I’m willing to give it a shot

@Gargron is this still your position?

@Gargron I dislike people who are just a stream of Boosts all day every day. That's content generated by other people, and I'm following *you* because I want to hear *your* opinion on things. But I understand many people aren't good at starting original topics themselves, and quoting lets you achieve both boosting of other's great topics you appreciate *and* adding the value of your opinion.

@cquest Tu as au raison de repouéter ces posts d’Eugen, Christian. C’est un truc important, que j’ai lu il n’y a pas longtemps, que j’ai compris et que j’approuve.

@Gargron Thank you, this is a really great explanation. I don't suppose you have you a more complete set of musings about your design choices?