Could someone please tell the early adopters that reading toots whining about new people wanting features they enjoy is *at least* as annoying as reading toots repeatedly asking for features you don't want included?
"If you just want this place to be Twitter why don't you just leave and go to Twitter"
Uh... My guy, the problem with Twitter that people flowing in now from Twitter have with it isn't its feature set.
It's that the place is now owned by a sociopathic toddler who enables bigots and trolls.
I'm sorry to break it to you, but quote toots *will* be a thing in the near future, whether you want them to be or not - because somebody else who does is going to take the time to code them into their own instance, and then people will vote with their feet. That's not a normative comment on whether or not it's a good thing, by the way. It's just the nature of the decentralized infrastructure that this place runs on. It's inevitable.
@AkivaMCohen my instances already has them, and it's not the only one, but we are addressing a culture issue not a technical one.
