Not that anyone needs another #quotetoot opinion, but here's mine:

There's no need for them.

"But how will I amplify someone's voice, while adding my opinion to it"?

Simple.

Boost the toot to amplify.
Reply to add your opinion.

All quote tweeting does is making the conversation your own, most often to express your disagreement with the original post. That kind of negativity is not needed here.

#qt #quotetweet #QuoteRT

Since all the discussion on #Mastodon currently is about #QuotedPostsOnMastodon #QuoteRT #QuotedRetoots #QuotedTroets #Drükos #QuotedPosts and #whitefragility I thought I'd #quotepost a toot about #civility that itself is a perfect example of perfect #civility and can guide us all.

How do people feel about returning to manual RTs and adding their two cents above the RTed text in lieu of a full quote-post function?

#quote #quotert #mastodon #features

#QuoteRT suck, part 1

By a senior UK #journalist

Does someone—anyone—have a compelling case for how a rendered link within a malicious post makes that post significantly more malign than an unrendered link? I find it hard to believe that it isn’t the content of the quoting post and the followers of the poster that count. #QuoteRT

Getting so tired of the debate about #QuoteRT on Mastodon.

Twitter didn't invent quote-tweets; its users did. People copied the URL of a tweet they wanted to comment on, as you do when you've got something to say about online content. Then Twitter (or third-party apps first? not sure) started showing the tweet as an embed, like they had interactive preview cards for some other links.

No one can stop you from pasting the damn link to a post. Then it's up to apps to display it however they like.

While some of you are still discussing whether #QuotedPostsOnMastodon should be a thing, others are already doing it. #QuoteRT #QuoteToot https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@blakereid/109548814655276181

The Case against #QuoteRT:
Das gibt es hier auf #Mastodon aus gutem Grund nicht, denn es ist zu nichts nütze, außer Eskalation. Entweder bin ich mit etwas d'accord, dann kann ich es unkommentiert boosten, oder ich möchte wiedersprechen. Dann verhelfe ich dem Mist durch meinen Widerspruch trotzdem nur zu mehr Sichtbarkeit. Solche Erregungsspiralen können mMn gut auf Twitter bleiben.

The Case against #QuoteRT:
Das gibt es hier auf #Mastodon aus gutem Grund nicht, denn es ist zu nichts nütze, außer Eskalation. Entweder bin ich mit etwas d'accord, dann kann ich es unkommentiert boosten, oder ich möchte wiedersprechen. Dann verhelfe ich dem Mist durch meinen Widerspruch trotzdem nur zu mehr Sichtbarkeit. Solche Erregungsspiralen können mMn gut auf Twitter bleiben.