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@Mastodon Can confirm it has worked. But it worked even better when boosting was the default and quote was in the context menu.
Incentives matter. Behaviour is often guided by incentives more than intent.
Things could remain better for longer if you left that setting for admins to configure. I’m sure many would choose the former behaviour.