@vbuendiar @UlrikeHahn Quotes and timelines have obvious good uses. That's why they were implemented in the first place.
Quotes have been in the roadmap for *years* now, even though they are essentially the most elementary aspect of the web: hyperlinks. They are taking long to implement them because they havent figured out how to make it so contrived that it will be basically useless.
The official app argument is a red herring. I run my own instance with a forked version that actually allows quotes—after all they're trivial to implement. But if I quote a post it will not show correctly for you, since you're using the official version. So it's about what the majority is using.