@Mastodon oh no, quote posts
having the ability to airdrop something along with your final word about the thing suuuper-encourages boosting the visibility of things that, well, ain't great
and i mean, you can already link posts with your commentary! but engaging with what lives underneath is opt-in, so it ends up being used very differently
i feel like adding quote posts will make this place so much less kind, and turn "hey look at this garbage"-style posts into a mainstay
@Mastodon also, how quotes interact with blocking is a huuuge problem in a lot of places, because it allows people to violate boundaries
and unless you are giving people the ability to delete posts that quote them with a block, they will continue to be broken by design
this invites harassment in a major way, and after deploying it, will be a Very Hard Mistake to undo
@Mastodon it's true there are a few people who try to work around this with screenshots, but i think the lack of quotes actually makes people less inclined to use its alternatives
which miiight seem paradoxical, but dunk screenshots were generally used to get around specific limitations about quotes, by people who were used to using qrts normally!
but when something doesn't exist normally as a core concept in the space you occupy, all of its derivatives become less common too