Not so sure about quote bit. I really like the quotes because I follow people for perspective on articles and content. Seeing the article summary and the commen

Not so sure about quote bit. I really like the quotes because I follow people for perspective on articles and content. Seeing the article summary and the comment as to why it’s good/bad/recommended reading is perfect. It’s basically hundreds of people being unpaid news aggregators and filters for me. If their tweets were “this is a good article on why X is good [link]” that would be a much worse UX for content aggregation. I have zero interest in discourse (and most people I followed don’t engage in any, nor do I). Also, last time I tried mastodon (many years ago) there was a lot of focus on the distributed/federated thing. I found it hard to emulate the global timeline of posts from just people I follow. Maybe it was just me not understanding the UI, but I failed to create a Twitter feed like experience back then.