@pavsmith there were a lot of very strongly put arguments against it, mostly from ppl who didn’t like having their posts quoted in a negative manner. So it wasn’t implemented at a server/protocol level.
But many clients will format in a twitter/quote format if you post with a link to another post in it.
FWIW I like quote posting
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