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I'm open to discussing this, but I'd like to address one thing first: what kind of interaction do we want to encourage here? If you like something, you can star it and move on. If you LOVE something, so much so that you want to share it with people who follow you, surely you have some thoughts about it that you'd like to share, whether positive or negative, even if it's just a few words. I certainly understand the value of retweets as an amplification mechanism, but what does a plain retweet, without any context or additional content bring to the table? In my book, social interactions should be more than mechanical content redistribution. Of course, I also understand that encouraging people to add their own thoughts introduces a bit of friction, but is that always a bad thing? Do we really need every piece of content to be effortlessly amplified? I'm not saying discoveribility doesn't matter. Sure, it does. But I don't think retweets are the only - let alone the best - way to achieve it. I understand that X has this functionality and that people are used to it, because X has conditioned us to expect certain features from every social network. But we're trying to do something different here. We are not trying to be X. We are also most certainly not the size of X, if you know what I mean. To be clear, I don't mean any of this as an attack. I'm just sharing my thoughts, I'd be more than happy to hear yours.