I'm feeling increasing limited by the lack of a good QT feature. I just inadvertently hijacked someone else's post with a tangential point that I ended up having to make as a reply. QT would have avoided that and allowed me to cite the original.
@mattblaze People seem obsessed with the idea that it will lead to abuse. A month or so ago a former Twitter engineer or product person was on here saying that replies, not RTs were the place where most abuse took place.
There are so many valid reasons to have the feature (sharing with comment, following up, starting *new* conversations, not hijacking, etc.), but everyone is focused on the one *invalid* reason not to have it.
@Chris @mattblaze agree 100%. My instance has the QT feature. I have seen **zero** cases of its leading to abuse. Of course this could partly be because our instance is relatively small and has strong moderation. it's true that on twitter high profile accounts can send their followers to mob up on someone by using QT. But the same can almost as easily be accomplished by including a link to a tweet which #Mastodon does support. and as you say the usefulness of QT **far** outweighs the negatives.
