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> If your account is followers only and all your posts are followers only but you retweet public posts there is still data leaking.

I'd be cool to give people more fine-grained control of scopes at the user-level, and I don't think anyone can force you to federate an RT, but there's no foolproof way to solve "data leaking" when something has to leave its origin. Superficial ways of making things not show up might be enough to satisfy most people: personally I'd like it if I didn't have to look at one-sided conversations on my timeline because it's private and I don't follow everyone involved. But people are bound to complain when they find out something doesn't *really* work the way they expected it to. And that's what's going to happen with Mastodon's proposal.

> it's our punishment that we need to stick with their way of doing them because we dropped the ball.

I don't like the idea of being punished over a feature I never liked anyway. I think QRTs are stupid and if anything I'd gut them out, but I get this is mostly a culture-clash between people who treat fedi to varying degrees more like Twitter and people who don't. But at least QRTs as they are now work exactly the way you'd expect them to, and Mastodon wants to do something else that won't.