twitter has a bunch of 'conversation quality' features that they've amassed over time and which now make up their 'expertise' on this kind of social media forma

twitter has a bunch of 'conversation quality' features that they've amassed over time and which now make up their 'expertise' on this kind of social media format. and yes, that includes stuff like quote tweets, which mastodon for whatever reason stubbornly opposes and refuses to implement. like, wouldn't it be better, that if someone decides to talk about something, for there to be a definite link to the original? instead of just, having them vaguely talk about 'something someone said' without an actual exact reference? but nope, mastodon just kinda...doesn't think that through. not even on the 'what would disabling/not having this feature result in' level. and then they pretend like 'that's the solution', but it's just not.