Just read this on another social platform and I like it 
"Mastodon doesn't have a quote function at all. The argument is that people should talk with each other and not about each other."
@IceWolf Ahh yeah! Those come back as a "reply" here but with a link to the orignal post!
Soo it is a new post somehow.. I think we don't need it here
@IceWolf But it's different somehow
There's not some "famous" person with a gazillion followers who can "take over" your post for example
@stux Oh, huh, makes sense!
What's taking over your post? We've never used Twitter, so don't have any point of comparison.
I think there are /some/ locally-famous people (often instance admins), but they're not like, HUGE huge.
@stux Honestly I kinda wonder what Masto would be like with quote-posts. Misskey apparently does have them.