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I don't feel as strongly about quote posts as I did in 2018. Personally, I am not a fan, but there is clearly a lot of demand for it. We're considering it.
If we did do it we'd like to make it something you can opt out of, in a similar way to how we plan to allow disabling replies. It's not entirely trivial.
@jaz@toot.walesDeveloper Chris Wetherell built Twitter’s retweet button. And he regrets what he did to this day.
“We might have just handed a 4-year-old a loaded weapon,” Wetherell recalled thinking as he watched the first Twitter mob use the tool he created. “That’s what I think we actually did.”
“The biggest problem is the quote retweet,” [head of Product] Goldman told BuzzFeed News. “Quote retweet allows for the dunk. It’s the dunk mechanism.”
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alexkantrowitz/how-the-retweet-ruined-the-internet
@Gargron I understand there are other technical ways to perform the QT, but having behaviour guided by the baked-in code is part of what slows down this effect.
There are technical workarounds for everything. That is not a sufficient answer for surrendering.
Personally, if someone likes what I post, reply, say what you want. Job done. Taking it away from me is a very weird signal.
Things we can learn from:
https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/2/17311616/twitter-retweet-quote-endorsement-function-trolls
