@lydiaconwell @Gargron Yeah it is something that occurred to me after posting that.

I was only thinking about the people who are quoted by people so that their bad actor followers can mob them, as is pretty common in the fowl place. But yeah, it can also be used to make it harder to draw attention to abusive posts.

It's a complicated feature, and the real question is if the lack of quoting really stopped the mobbing in the first place, as we don't have any data on that except our gut feelings.