@Gargron that would be great! Then people who don’t want it can duck the downsides and it can foster communication, growth, journalism, etc. I’m delighted to learn you are considering this!! Please do it.

@Gargron That's a brillant way appropriate to the culture of Mastodon! Thanks for your thoughts, efforts and for all of your great work! 🌟🙏🏼

@Gargron I’d wait out the current moment. I joined, and said ‘where’s the quote post?’ It’s not necessary, and if someone really feels the need, they can comment in their own toot and post a link. There are a lot of new users who need to live with/use the app as it is before deciding. Demand may fade.

@Gargron Why opt out? Why not opt in?

@Gargron THANK YOU from Canada for this space. 🙏🙋‍♀️😊

@Gargron What about making them a #QuoteReply (roughly equivalent to a repost with additional reply text)? This avoids the problem of splitting the conversation, instead encouraging interaction with the original poster. See here for proposal and discussion: https://fediphilosophy.org/@keithwilson/109456249890156614

@Gargron is there any way to make it easier to see the captioning for the visually impaired, when composing it? I have visual issues myself and find it hard to see the letters when composing. They seem to be partially covered by the keyboard and the white font makes it difficult for me to see on top off the image. I’m new here and it could be the way I have set it up. Thank you 🙏

@Gargron Great!

I advise it to make it opt-in by default and make the opt-out/opt-in question configurable for server admins in config/setting.yml. I also would make bots always opt-out.

I also have a related idea about account presets. That people can choose at sign-up (or later if they want) what kind of account they want with associated settings. The account preset 'journalism and media' would e.g. enable QT's, enable discoverable, enable search indexing, etc. On the other site will the account preset 'as private as possible' enable all privacy features, post visibility to followers only, lock account, etc. Just an idea that popped out in my head. Maybe I need make it a Github issue.

@Gargron rather default setting was off for that feature with an “opt in” option. QT is not that desirable. If you’re going to re-blog a post, commentary should come after the “RT” not as a header as is current with QT on the bird site. And remember, we called them Re-Tweets and had to copy paste and append RT manually.

@Gargron Would it be possible to make it opt-in instead?

@Gargron this is where @bigzaphod needs to point you to the posts about his idea

@Gargron Much respect for considering this!

As a long time consumer of online communities, my sense it that the real danger with Quote Posts isn't harrasment (which can happen plenty of other ways), but they help basic misunderstandings to accelerate into angry conflict.

Giving the user the choice should greatly address that concern w/people who don't want that drama. The worst dog pile I was under came via friendly accounts after one person amplified one misunderstood one post in a thread.

@Gargron Glad to read this part.

I don't think we're going to like how it changes the conversation here. I hope I'm wrong.

@Gargron good. Everyone I've communicated with who wants it also wants it to be opt-in, on a per-post basis.

@Gargron I would say stick to no explicit quote tweet behavior but handle it however you handle the preview of links to mastodon posts and potentially allow masking of the preview

@Gargron A user-controlled option would be wonderful. Thanks for considering!

@Gargron Also, please include a feature to stop seeing any further QTs of a given post. If everyone is dunking on the same awful post, I don't want to have to see the same awful post over and over again

@Gargron makes sense.

@Gargron
Give me OPT IN or give me BLOCK!!! :ablobcatgrumpy:

@Gargron Please don't do this at all