Misty@misty@digipres.club
I keep seeing people be confused or even aggressive about how worried some Mastodon users are about quote posts, but I can actually explain it pretty simply: some people were on Twitter in 2014-2015 and were on the receiving end of the world's worst harassment A/B test. So I don't think it's surprising those people ended up permanently associating the quote post feature with that.
Misty@misty@digipres.club
BTW I don't personally expect the worst from Mastodon's implementation, so don't necessarily take this as personal pessimism. Just saying that if you see some people who seem very concerned about it, they're not being irrational. They may just have had different personal experiences than you.