@Gargron 1. Is this your individual opinion or do other developers also agree on this? Sounds like something the dev-team should at least agree on, otherwise the community should.

2. There are two different approaches to quoted tweets.

One is the one you describing, people harassing others using this feature.

But the other approach is not toxic. It's the way people use quoted retweets with news tweets and public (e.g. political) figures. People who want to tell their followers what they think about the tweet they quoted. If they reply under the tweet, it will be difficult to find, also for their followers. Quoted retweets/post also appear on the default user timeline.

💡 Therefore I advise to create a opt-in quoted posts feature. With a text like: 'are you a news outlet or a public figure, offer your followers the option to quote your posts.

@gargron but you could implement the Mastodon emojies. :mastoblush:

I would change their hair to purple. :mastovampire:

@Gargron the alternative which will replace quote tweets will likely be screenshot+link+comment. It's certainly less elegant.

@Gargron This is probably the way to go. Nearly every time I've been QRTed on birdsite it's been to criticize. Criticize me to my face, not to your followers.

If someone wants to criticize me by replying to my post and then retweeting it, fine. At least I had the courtesy of a reply to me.

@Gargron i often used quoted tweets at Twitter to quote myself, mainly for technical topics that required long threads. Now in Mastodon I wouldn't like to repeat myself once and over again.